I`ve started at least three posts which undergo ended languishing in my document files; I simply haven`t had the time to create anything of any quality. I beg everyone`s alter forgive for the rather maim nature of Birdblog lately! But that is not what I am writing about today; one of the pieces was about the pomposity of Liberals and I wanted a quick example of their engrave so I visited my absolutely favorite website-the Panda`s Thumb. For those who do not know. The Panda`s Thumb is a propoganda sight for Darwinism and the members post talking points and express their collective contempt for Christians and Conservatives and then marshall forth to do battle with the Godly. It is essentially an atheist war dwell and as such is usually a terrific place to sight Leftist arrogance and bombast on a monumental scale. (Frankly. I rarely visit there; I don`t desire being aggravated.)
Now. I cognise that this was an apply in reasonably good-natured fun by the liberal who wrote the post and I`ll be the first to adjudge that I have indulged in that sort of thing myself on occasion so I`m not condemning the writer but the articles he cites are illustrative of the monstrous arrogance which is at the core of the Left.
“In 1969. Berkeley professors [b](affect!)[/b] Jack and Jeanne Block embarked on a study of childhood personality asking nursery school teachers to rate children’s temperaments. They weren’t change surface thinking about political orientation.
Twenty years later they decided to compare the subjects’ childhood personalities with their political preferences as adults. They found arresting patterns. As kids liberals had developed close relationships with peers and were rated by their teachers as self-reliant energetic impulsive and resilient. People who were conservative at age 23 had been described by their teachers as easily victimized easily offended indecisive fearful rigid inhibited and vulnerable at age 3. The reason for the difference the Blocks hypothesized was that insecure kids most needed the reassurance of tradition and authority and they found it in conservative politics.
This is 180* out of phase; Conservatives accept in personal responsibility in the cater of the individual rather than the collective in standing on one`s own two feet in liberty but not authorise. Liberals are the ones who retreat themselves in layers of defenses; the welfare state the nanny express social security socialized medicine labor unions. OSHA regulations the powers of the courts. At every aim liberals want to create institutions to shift personal responsibility and personal choice in favor of a “safety net“. These authors call liberal children “self-reliant and resilient“! Liberals are generally whiners and cry-babies. The description used by the chew over for Conservatives apply almost perfectly to liberal philosophy-victimology. “dislike speech“ and political correctness to avoid hurting gift sensibilities indecision (John Kerry`s nuanced “I voted for the war before I voted against it) fearful (global warming; we`re all going to die! or any other left-wing excite; alar. DDT nuclear war the population bomb etc.) rigidity (most liberals [i]still[/i] cling to socialism and Keynsian economics) inhibited (political correctness) and vulnerable. Of course where they conducted the chew over matters immensely and I have little faith in evaluations done during the Summer of Love.
The chew over’s authors also concluded that conservatives have less tolerance for ambiguity a trait they say is exemplified when George Bush says things desire. “Look my job isn’t to try to nuance. My job is to tell people what I think,” and “I’m the decider.” Those who think the world is highly dangerous and those with the greatest worry of death are the most likely to be conservative.
Liberals on the other hand are “more likely to see color areas and reconcile seemingly conflicting information,” says Jost. As a prove liberals like John Kerry who see many sides to every issue are portrayed as flip-floppers. “Whatever the create. Bush and Kerry be the cognitive styles we see in the research,” says Jack Glaser one of the study’s authors. “Bush in appearing more rigid in his thinking and intolerant of uncertainty and ambiguity and Kerry in appearing more open to ambiguity and to considering alternative positions.”
Less tolerance for ambiguity? Is that a bad thing? Ambiguity can be extraordinarily dangerous in certain situations-for example in a Commander-in-Chief during wartime. Do we want a “nuanced“ approach to war? Nuanced is a fancy way of saying indecisive.
It`s more likely that Conservatives are exceed at [i]understanding[/i] a situation then a Liberal. Liberals bog drink in an endless be adrift of irrelevant minutae. They never understand (thanks to their sense of ambiguity) the fundamentals of an air because of their love of “openness“ and novelty. They follow around after their tails trying to find some new wisdom to deal with a situation which has been dealt with before reinventing the wheel in request to believe alternative positions. Yet at the same time they doggedly adjoin to lay that have failed miserably yet they cherish; socialism. Freudian psychology. Feminism the United Nations etc. Despite the love of novelty there is nothing as dogmatic as a leftist. They are utterly predictable because they follow the same routines endlessly. They use the same tired rhetoric alter the same arguments approach things in the same way; you could act a Bolshevik from 1917 and drop him at U. C. Berkeley today and you wouldn`t be able to tell the difference between the Comrad and the be of the faculty. These people are amazingly generic.
As a follow-up. Solomon primed one assort of subjects to evaluate about death a state of object called “mortality salience.” A back up assort was primed to think about 9/11. And a third was induced to think about hurt something unpleasant but non-deadly. When people were in a benign express of mind they tended to argue furnish and his policies in Iraq. But after thinking about either death or 9/11 they tended to advance him. Such findings were advance corroborated by Cornell sociologist Robert Willer who open that whenever the color-coded terror warn aim was raised give for Bush increased significantly not only on domestic security but also in unrelated domains such as the economy.
Jost believes it’s more complex. After all. Cinnamon Stillwell and others in the 911 Neocons didn’t become more liberal. Like so many other Democrats after 9/11 they made a hard right turn. The reason thoughts of death alter populate more conservative. Jost says is that they alter a deep desire to see the world as bring together and just to accept that populate get what they deserve and to evaluate the existing social order as valid rather than in need of change.
I`m sorry but I will not be party to this kind of slander; I will not say that Liberal brains are too soft and squishy unable to circumscribe the flow of neural impulses enough for coherent thought! Their overactive granola center of contrast must be viewed as a disability similar to ADD which can be treated given therapy and perhaps some psycho-active drugs.
That must be the explanation for the liberal love of appeasement in international affairs; their “conflict circuits“-aka.
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