ZOT!
Posted on 04/07/2015 6:19:47 AM PDT by MayorKoch
It is difficult to define a whole school of political ideology precisely, but one may reasonably define liberalism (as opposed to conservatism) in the contemporary United States as the genuine concern for the welfare of genetically unrelated others and the willingness to contribute larger proportions of private resources for the welfare of such others. In the modern political and economic context, this willingness usually translates into paying higher proportions of individual incomes in taxes toward the government and its social welfare programs. Liberals usually support such social welfare programs and higher taxes to finance them, and conservatives usually oppose them.
Defined as such, liberalism is evolutionarily novel. Humans are evolutionarily designed to be altruistic toward their genetic kin, their friends and allies, and members of their deme (a group of intermarrying individuals) or ethnic group. They are not designed to be altruistic toward an indefinite number of complete strangers whom they are not likely ever to meet or interact with. This is largely because our ancestors lived in a small band of 50-150 genetically related individuals, and large cities and nations with thousands and millions of people are themselves evolutionarily novel...
Incidentally, this finding substantiates one of the persistent complaints among conservatives. Conservatives often complain that liberals control the media or the show business or the academia or some other social institutions. The Hypothesis explains why conservatives are correct in their complaints. Liberals do control the media, or the show business, or the academia, among other institutions, because, apart from a few areas in life (such as business) where countervailing circumstances may prevail, liberals control all institutions. They control the institutions because liberals are on average more intelligent than conservatives and thus they are more likely to attain the highest status in any area of (evolutionarily novel) modern life.
(Excerpt) Read more at psychologytoday.com ...
Go to a Mensa meeting or a hard sciences department at a major university and you’re most likely to find a heavy concentration of libertarian-leaning types.
And the differences are stark . . . between 7% and 8% for the top couple of states and below a fraction of 1% for the bottom.
I have it on good authority that “satoshi kanazawa” is Japanese for “bull sh!t.”
Who do you think Jesus would look at favorably. The individual who wants to enter Heaven and states "I lived a good life, allowing the government to take 50-75 percent of what I earn to spend of others" or the individual who states "I did not make much in my life Lord, but I helped other people when they were poor, hungry, and needed work. I spent what little of my earnings to help raise my fellow man out of his or her misery."
Oh - I forgot. Belief in God and that Jesus is my Lord and Savior is a sign of ignorance; believing in superstitions and folklore, you know. The progessive, liberal idea of murdering unborn babies will win a lot of points with God./sarc
yup...and I use that link often when some libtard off site says that studies prove “conservatives are *insert invective*”
It usually shuts them up pretty fast.
“Liberalism isnt merely a mental disorder....it’s a genetic birth defect.”
Otherwise known as “Andreas Lubitz Syndrome”
They are suicidal and wish to take us all with them.
Yes I coined the term....but you are free to use it as open source....*grin*
ZOT!
Liberals control institutions and use tax dollars because they don’t make money in business and don’t want to. They leach their existence from the work of conservatives. Liberals “feel” superior and act it. Conservatives are superior, yet don’t act on it.
Welcome, N00bie! Enjoy!
I tend to not listen to the echo chamber that says "woe is me" and actually do the research that shows conservatives making headway.... like the 30+ states with Voter ID laws that haven't been stricken. Lots of attention gets paid to the few that have been stricken, but functional Voter ID laws tend to get ignored. Doesn't match the fear narrative that the liberals (Dem and Republican) are trying to sell.
/johnny
In response to ongoing controversy over views such as that African countries suffer chronic poverty and illness because their people have lower IQs and that black women are "objectively less attractive" than other races, he was dismissed from writing for Psychology Today.
I guess they hired him back?
I guess I need to tear up my MENSA card...
Oh wait, I never renewed after the first year due to the excessive number of arrogant idiot liberals involved.
Once upon a time, Psychology experts also proclaimed Homosexuality as a mental disorder.
IBTZ
“...liberalism is evolutionarily novel.”
Liberalism ultimately necessitates tyranny.
There is nothing novel about tyranny.
"Happy" fella, aren't ya?
“I just can’t manage to find much fear of the liberals.”
I fear greatly for the future of this country. Accounts through history tell the same story.. The little man with the mustache in Germany waving his arms like Napoleon and ranting about races, nothing to fear. The intellectuals in Russia supporting Stalin because it was the ‘smart’ thing to do. Too stupid to see they had no place in Communism once their usefulness was finished.
We have seen it before.. the ‘turning off of the brain’ when ordered to march to the whims of their political leaders. Union workers voting for dems KNOWING it means the demise of their livelihood. Economists lying about economics to suit the needs of their political saints... The list goes on.
We need a resurgence of patriotism that will flash across the country and decisively separate the chaff from the wheat and burn the chaff in a huge bonfire.
Since they never exhibit logic, how could they even begin making a case for their superior intelligence?
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