Finally! solves the puzzle. I’ve being finding it hard to get over their paranoia. Guys! seek help, it would help if you turn Fox off and the other madd men and women on radio and the blogs.

Any takers on a bet if any of the news outlets pick up on this one and try their damndest to seriously report on this study?

Ladies and gentlemen, this explains Murdochs success. He must have noticed this years ago when he created Fox, well and the opportunity to make money from alarming ordinary folks (who are happy to be deceived).

rr98411 said:
Any takers on a bet if any of the news outlets pick up on this one and try their damndest to seriously report on this study?

It’s a serious report.

…”I took this on as a fairly frivolous exercise: I just decided to find out what was biologically wrong with people who don’t agree with me and see what scientists had to say about it and they actually came up with something.”

SCIENCE!!!

Biden.

They have brains?

This is not the first scientific article to find neurological differences between conservatives and liberals. However, it does not suggest in any manner that either have a defect in their brain. These are normal variations, while likely genetic, that are part of the great variation in human perception and personality.

Papinian said:
They have brains?

A paranoid one.

Tommy Christopher says: . “The study did not, however, address any correlation to cable news ratings”.
I say: “Not funny, TC ! All the other studies were bogus anyway”.

Wait a minute…isn’t the amygdala the “animal” part of the brain…the part that overrides intelligence in case of perceived danger? Hmmmm…..

murphy0071 said:
This is not the first scientific article to find neurological differences between conservatives and liberals. However, it does not suggest in any manner that either have a defect in their brain. These are normal variations, while likely genetic, that are part of the great variation in human perception and personality.

Aha, a voice of reason in the wilderness!

The only thing I fear is Libs and Progs gaining more power and further ruining the US.

skyfet said:
It’s a serious report.

Yeah, right ! hahahahahaha

Liberals have a gene that prevents them from using logic and reasoning.
As Ronald Reagan said -
The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.

skyfet said:
Finally! solves the puzzle. I’ve being finding it hard to get over their paranoia. Guys! seek help, it would help if you turn Fox off and the other madd men and women on radio and the blogs.

How about you freaks do the same thing? …..turn off your low-rated MSNBC and take a listen to the alternatives out there. Air America is already gone (because so few of you listened), soon MSNBC will be gone because there are so few of you out there. I think you exist, NOT because of what you believe, you exist just to bash FOX….you have no other reason for being!!!!

murphy0071 said:
This is not the first scientific article to find neurological differences between conservatives and liberals. However, it does not suggest in any manner that either have a defect in their brain. These are normal variations, while likely genetic, that are part of the great variation in human perception and personality.

Agreed, although I wouldn’t say that they are ‘likely genetic’. Epigenetics play a major role, but there is also the possibility of brain changes related to regular, old neuroplasticity. That is, we don’t know if these differences in brain structure cause conservative thought or if conservative thought causes the brain differences. It is also important to note that this is a correlational study; it does not imply causation.

Like Michael Vick, Tommy Christopher is an offensive, puerile affront to humanity. The fact that he is considered by management to be worth publishing tells us that Mediaite is ultimately hopeless. I’ll be leaving now. I won’t waste my time here again.

skyfet said:
It’s a serious report.

To people with brains so small they don’t have an amygdala.

SmartAlec said:
Liberals have a gene that prevents them from using logic and reasoning.
As Ronald Reagan said -
The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.

Actually, the ‘liberal gene’ is a gene that encodes the D4 dopamine receptor, which has been associated with increased novel-seeking behavior.

Fuckin magnets….

Liberals use science in the way that Martha Stewart uses pine cones, glitter, and a glue gun.

Fact: America’s best days are in front of her — if only we have the guts to face the truth and apply ourselves to repairing the foundation upon which this blessed nation was formed. The doctor (Just4thefax) is in and the diagnosis is clear: in Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder, Conservatives provides a remedy to help freedom-loving Americans effectively medicate the mental disease of modern liberalism and restore America’s former brilliance. Modern liberalism: “made in much the same way as a sausage — it’s a blend of fascist, Communist, and socialist ideologies from twentieth century Europe, with a pinch of Nazism, all ground together, yet retaining the flavor of its various parts”. So it’s clear to me and also most here that post liberals are in need of help. So go get some free on Also remember not to give in to the stupidity of the socialist of this site!.

This explains everything.

Scared little babies crying and/or irrational fear reptiles.

That’s your average Fox viewer.

Reptile-like brains incapable of higher reasoning or critical thought.

Uneducated and more like dogs than humans, which explains why when Fox news whistles “here boy!” they all run.

Just4thefax said:
it’s a blend of fascist, Communist, and socialist ideologies from twentieth century Europe, with a pinch of Nazism, .

You have no fucking idea what you are talking about.

HAHA, explains why there are so many conservatives in the military. Nice try lefties. This theory is as fake as global warming :)

Jackie_Treehorn said:
Fuckin magnets….

Fact: Where is that link? Did BFD give it to you for posterity?

Just4thefax said:
The doctor (Just4thefax) is in and the diagnosis is clear: in Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder, Conservatives provides a remedy to help freedom-loving .

Fact: People with actual scientific degrees say Conservatism is a mental disorder. Now who to believe more….scientists or Internet Troll?

shootfromthehip said:
You have no fucking idea what you are talking about.

Fact: Read it a few times you dumb shit liberal you might be able to understand it someday that’s why the thread is here and your proving the writers point that the bigger brains have more in them!

shootfromthehip said:
…..turn off your low-rated MSNBC and take a listen to the alternatives out there. Air America is already gone (because so few of you listened), soon MSNBC will be gone because there are so few of you out there. I think you exist, NOT because of what you believe, you exist just to bash FOX….you have no other reason for being!!!!

I repeat..…..turn off your low-rated MSNBC and take a listen to the alternatives out there. Air America is already gone (because so few of you listened), soon MSNBC will be gone because there are so few of you out there. I think you exist, NOT because of what you believe, you exist just to bash FOX….you have no other reason for being!!!!

Jackie_Treehorn said:
Fact: People with actual scientific degrees say Conservatism is a mental disorder. Now who to believe more….scientists or Internet Troll?

Fact: Typical liberal misreads the thread and does exactly what Ronald Reagan stated about them!
Liberals know so much that isn’t so!

Just4thefax said:
Fact: Read it a few times you dumb shit liberal you might be able to understand it someday that’s why the thread is here and your proving the writers point that the bigger brains have more in them!

Hey FUCKFACE. I know full well what fascism is and I guarantee you liberalism is far from any form of fascism OR Socialism in the classical sense.

And speaking of Nazis, nearly every historian from Oxford to Harvard places Hitler at the far right end of the political spectrum.

That means the right and today’s GOP are more like Nazis than the left.

shootfromthehip said:
Uneducated and more like dogs than humans, which explains why when Fox news whistles “here boy!” they all run.

Fact: November 2nd election results are in and your bunch got schellacked and your still to dumb to beleive it! Pitiful just pitiful! Next time write it like your hiney is shinning!

Georgia999 said:
Air America is already gone (because so few of you listened), soon

No, genius, because they were financially mismanaged.

Had nothing to do with ratings and everything to do with the lack of decent radio stations available.

Clear Channel owns all the large wattage AM stations already.

They dominate and don;t take kindly to competition.

I know your simple black & white conservative brain that has been pumped full of misinfo and propaganda from Fox and others make you THINK you know why Air America failed, but the reality is more complex and nuanced than “we didn’t listen.”

As a matter of fact Al Franken’s show held up very well in many markets and he even was beating Bill O’Reilly;s show in ccities such as New York, Portland and Chicago where they went head to head.

shootfromthehip said:
GOP are more like Nazis than the left.

Fact: Only thing truthful about that is you just have a pile of shit sticking out your ear because it’s full of it!

Just4thefax said:
Fact: November 2nd election results are in and your bunch got schellacked and your still to dumb to beleive it! Pitiful just pitiful! Next time write it like your hiney is shinning!

What the fuck are you talking about?

Why didn’t you take the Senate, then?

Also, if liberals are scary dictators, then why didn’t Obama just prevent elections from happening?

YOU CONSERVATIVES MAKE NO SENSE AND ARE CRYBABY LIARS,.

I AM LIVING PROOF OF THIS.

Just4thefax said:
Fact: Only thing truthful about that is you just have a pile of shit sticking out your ear because it’s full of it!

Aw, truth hurts, doesn’t it?

sieg heil you racist fuck.

Gop = nazis.

Deal with it.

http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2009/03/06/10-similarities-between-ultra-conservative-republicans-and-nazis/

That was great. The ratings joke was excellent.

Just read the comments from Iris and Jackie and then tell me which side has the brainiacs.

Hip, you need a gun first. I’m a former liberal, and cowardice is why I left the fold. Not only do they fear the necessity of war, they also fear the very premise of their existence. I chew liberals up, and spit them out daily.
At the end of the contest, fear permeates a liberals life, and those in the conservative ring utilize it to creatively kill and maim our enemies.

Just4thefax said:
Fact: Only thing truthful about that is you just have a pile of shit sticking out your ear because it’s full of it!
Fact: Correct never question the spelling of a real expert in that field!

Fact: November 2nd election results are in and your bunch got schellacked and your still to dumb to beleive it! Pitiful just pitiful! Next time write it like your hiney is shinning!

Fact: Who gives a fuck what a loser liberal wants! Go get a stiffy up your ass Fagget!

Fact: We have Ozero as president and you complain about constitution and it’s suplement articles!
Fact: That must be the handful that doesn’t use the Koran that condemned the acts of violence it Right! The crusaders should of finished the job just like the first Bush should of

You could sit through 5 award winning documentaries on the decline of the American education system and not find a more stinging indictment of what has become of this country’s schools and ability to teach than that confused jumble of rage, misspelling, wrecked grammar and confusion. If those attempts at posts came from an actual adult, I really fear for us all, left, center and right.

Yawn, more attacks from the Left. Hey progressives, when are you going to stand up and defend big government instead of just mounting these spurious ad hominem attacks on people who disagree with you? How about engaging in a debate with leading conservatives on the merits of the trillion dollar stimulus and all your other failed spend-till-you-drop programs that have bankrupted the nation? Or maybe the fear center in YOUR brains doesn’t allow you to tackle THOSE issue.

shootfromthehip said:
Aw, truth hurts, doesn’t it?
sieg heil you racist fuck.
Gop = nazis.
Deal with it.

Fact: I suppose it is asking too much of you to actually read a book rather than cite a Left-wing survey. Your only interest is in finger painting a caricature of the Right as responsible for all problems while the Left is the author of all “progress.” It’s a classic Leftist technique, ascribe everything less than perfect to the Right’s shortcommings while implying the Left has a solution where it doesn’t have any idea other than to expand government. I recall a certain Presidential candidate promising to slow the rise of the ocean’s waters and a certain President promising unemployment wouldn’t exceed 8%. How is that hopey, changey thing working out?

Is anyone else sick and tired of the bickering between conservatives and liberals?

The fact of the matter is that both have something valuable to bring to the table. While both have completely opposite worldviews (lens through which they see everything) if both sides come to an issue in humility, things get done. The problem with our country isn’t that we have too many conservatives or too many liberals. The problem is that we do not respect enough to LISTEN!

Stuff like this study only furthers the divide between progressives and conservatives. We as Americans are letting politics and stupid, pointless (it was basically a high-dollar prank) drive us apart and we are ALL STUPID for letting it happen. How about instead of insulting each other based on what we have been told by our respective news organization/politicians/blogs/whoever else we listen to, we begin to listen to each other directly and find out what each other believes and actually discuss the issues instead of sticking our fingers in our ears and whining about how mean the other person is?

Angstone said:
You could sit through 5 award winning documentaries on the decline of the American education system and not find a more stinging indictment of what has become of this country’s schools and ability to teach than that confused jumble of rage, misspelling, wrecked grammar and confusion. If those attempts at posts came from an actual adult, I really fear for us all, left, center and right.

Fact: How many times do you post the same post? Polly want a cracker? Did you misread the topic of this discussion again if so go back to top of page! Hope that helps you libtard!

gordonbloyersshow said:
I AM LIVING PROOF OF THIS.

Fact: it’s SS? hahahahah..

This explains why they are such pawns of fear mongering.

This coincides largely with the finding that liberals have larger brain centers for blind trust and parroting.

This makes sense to me. Conservatives believe in self-reliance. We believe in the individual rather than the collective. We trust ourselves to make the decisions that steer our lives. We assess the realities of this world as accurately and directly as possible as we understand that the consequences of underestimating or misjudging a threat/ promise/ friend/ enemy can be dire. We don’t expect to always get a ‘do over’ and we know damned well that there are people all over this planet who hate for no reason at all and would like nothing more than to revoke our ‘right to exist’. We understand perfectly the FACT that some people can’t be negotiated with… won’t listen to reason… and/or are bound and determined to cause maximum damage. period.

It stands to reason that our brains are wired to look at the world realistically. It also stands to reason that the military attracts conservatives. Soldiers are the perfect examples of people who need acccurate assessment skills. The consequences of them underestimating danger can be deadly.

I think it’s funny reading Tommy’s take on it and the rest of the leftwingers clucking in lock-step. Size is relative, right? Did any of you stop to consider that the size of the conservatives amygdalas are exactly right? That it’s the enlightened liberals atrophied amygdalas that are abnormal? Decades of ‘progressive’ thinking and ‘collectivism’ has made you complacent and unprepared.

Perhaps that’s why the entire country always makes a hard right pivot after some asshole sucker-punches us and the willfully ignorant liberals are forced to stare reality in its ugly face.

Humans have always killed each other. it’s just the liberals who are still surprised by it. We won’t have to wait too long… some other asshole is plotting the demise of an entire group of humas as we speak. Knowing that doesn’t make me ‘fearful’ or ‘a coward’ or even ‘a pessimist’….. it makes me a realist.

And oh so conservative. You’d better believe it.

So.. you puny amygdala’d leftwingers keep cackling. We all know who will be truly scared when the shit hits the fan. I always enjoy watching you wallow in your newfound vulnerability after we get kicked in the teeth… even as you simultaneously bitterly cling to you BS rationalizations of why we deserved to get kicked.

Even now, there is no shortage of leftwingers who believe that all violence perpetrated against America is justified…. that we have no right to tell Iran that they can’t have nuclear bombs….. that Israel brings those random rocket attacks on themselves…. that Chavez and Castro are heroes…. that North Korea is not a real threat.

Maybe that’s why my amygdala is bigger than yours…. I have to live in reality while you do not.

Stephen Hogan said:
Agreed, although I wouldn’t say that they are ‘likely genetic’. Epigenetics play a major role, but there is also the possibility of brain changes related to regular, old neuroplasticity. That is, we don’t know if these differences in brain structure cause conservative thought or if conservative thought causes the brain differences. It is also important to note that this is a correlational study; it does not imply causation.

Usually, when we discuss plasticity, it does not effect such large groups of people. You are right about correlation. If you want to know about cause and effect you need to use causal modeling which seldom, when using intervening variables, yields a cut and dried answer to neurological issue and usually, if using the null, you do not get significant results in such studies just information on probable contributing factors.

rr98411 said:
Any takers on a bet if any of the news outlets pick up on this one and try their damndest to seriously report on this study?

Sucker bet. I bet they are already running with it. Huffposters are probably fanning and faving eac other like crazy at this very moment.

http://crazyconservative.wordpress.com/

iris said:
So thats why they are so freaking afraid of EVERYTHING…..ooo im scared of the muslim, ooo im scared of teh gay, ooo im scared of the brown people and im scared of their babies….What giant pussies they are, they should be scared that they got teh stoopid so bad

None of us are scared of any of this, the fear is a product of liberal derangement, nothing more. I could just as easily say that all libs are afraid of Sarah Palin.

http://crazyconservative.wordpress.com/

Probably accurate. The Conservative mind needs badly to feel superior to something – anything. There exists no moral center or intellectual coherence. It ruptures & savages the basic fabric of Society & is a bastion of insularity & provincialism. A mind so black that it would even obscure the darkness of Hell itself. Such minds are not even fit subjects for moral judgments.

murphy0071 said:
You are right about correlation. If you want to know about cause and effect you need to use causal modeling which seldom, when using intervening variables, yields a cut and dried answer to neurological issue and usually, if using the null, you do not get significant results in such studies just information on probable contributing factors.

Exactly. Thanks for that. It’s nice to see a voice of reason here. I think I will always get frustrated when people extrapolate too much from these types of studies.

murphy0071 said:
Usually, when we discuss plasticity, it does not effect such large groups of people.

I am aware of that. It usually effects the individual brain. However, since all of our brains are constantly changing, it would be unwise to rule it out.

Nachi said:
A mind so black that it would even obscure the darkness of Hell itself.

Wow. lmao! Dude, get some help. Seriously.

shootfromthehip said:
Hey FUCKFACE. I know full well what fascism is and I guarantee you liberalism is far from any form of fascism OR Socialism in the classical sense. And speaking of Nazis, nearly every historian from Oxford to Harvard places Hitler at the far right end of the political spectrum. That means the right and today’s GOP are more like Nazis than the left.

You don’t know what you’re talking about. Nazism is to the right of Communism, but only a tiny bit.

Do you even know what Nazi stands for? National SOCIALIST. Nazism has its roots in facism….facism has its roots in Progressivism. Guess which political party also has its roots in progressivism?

It was far leftist George Bernard Shaw who hailed Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini as the world’s great “progressive” leaders because they “did things,” unlike the leaders of those “putrefying corpses” called parliamentary democracies.

Stephen Hogan said:
That is, we don’t know if these differences in brain structure cause conservative thought or if conservative thought causes the brain differences. It is also important to note that this is a correlational study; it does not imply causation.

Agreed.

Considering the Left is always congratulating itself for its supposed reliance on science, it is amusing that so many of them don’t seem to have a clue about what science really is.

Truth is the braying by the usual Lefty suspects about this “study” is really a microcosm of the Left’s confusion about what science really is. Science is more than anything a method for delivering more certainty about what we perceive in the world. To cobble together unrelated data to arrive at certain conclusions about something we don’t fully understand (how cognitive function works) is really the pinnacle of unscientific thinking. This faulty logic is in great display in practically every arena where the Left is claiming “science” is on their side.

Ultimately scientific truth for Leftists is always co-opted by the political. And in this case, recent massive losses in the political arena have to be neatly explained in some fashion that doesn’t place responsibility on the dystopian authoritarian worldview of the Left which is anathema to the American character. Aha, now we know why the Left was roundly and soundly repulsed in November, defective brains!!

shootfromthehip said:
Aw, truth hurts, doesn’t it? sieg heil you racist fuck. Gop = nazis. Deal with it. http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2009/03/06/10-similarities-between-ultra-conservative-republicans-and-nazis/

This is how Mussolini, Hirtler’s idol, described facism: “Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State”

Which current political party seeks to enlarge the power of government?

goldmind said:
Hip, you need a gun first. I’m a former liberal, and cowardice is why I left the fold. Not only do they fear the necessity of war, they also fear the very premise of their existence. I chew liberals up, and spit them out daily.
At the end of the contest, fear permeates a liberals life, and those in the conservative ring utilize it to creatively kill and maim our enemies.

OMG WAR AGAINST JEEBUSMAS!!!!!
OMG TEH GHEYZ!!!!!!!!
OMG TEH FEMINISTZ!!!!!!!!!!

Yup no fear on the right…..

FearMonger said:
This makes sense to me. Conservatives believe in self-reliance. We believe in the individual rather than the collective. We trust ourselves to make the decisions that steer our lives. We assess the realities of this world as accurately and directly as possible as we understand that the consequences of underestimating or misjudging a threat/ promise/ friend/ enemy can be dire. We don’t expect to always get a ‘do over’ and we know damned well that there are people all over this planet who hate for no reason at all and would like nothing more than to revoke our ‘right to exist’. We understand perfectly the FACT that some people can’t be negotiated with… won’t listen to reason… and/or are bound and determined to cause maximum damage. period.

It stands to reason that our brains are wired to look at the world realistically. It also stands to reason that the military attracts conservatives. Soldiers are the perfect examples of people who need acccurate assessment skills. The consequences of them underestimating danger can be deadly.

I think it’s funny reading Tommy’s take on it and the rest of the leftwingers clucking in lock-step. Size is relative, right? Did any of you stop to consider that the size of the conservatives amygdalas are exactly right? That it’s the enlightened liberals atrophied amygdalas that are abnormal? Decades of ‘progressive’ thinking and ‘collectivism’ has made you complacent and unprepared.

Perhaps that’s why the entire country always makes a hard right pivot after some asshole sucker-punches us and the willfully ignorant liberals are forced to stare reality in its ugly face.

Humans have always killed each other. it’s just the liberals who are still surprised by it. We won’t have to wait too long… some other asshole is plotting the demise of an entire group of humas as we speak. Knowing that doesn’t make me ‘fearful’ or ‘a coward’ or even ‘a pessimist’….. it makes me a realist.

And oh so conservative. You’d better believe it.

So.. you puny amygdala’d leftwingers keep cackling. We all know who will be truly scared when the shit hits the fan. I always enjoy watching you wallow in your newfound vulnerability after we get kicked in the teeth… even as you simultaneously bitterly cling to you BS rationalizations of why we deserved to get kicked.

Even now, there is no shortage of leftwingers who believe that all violence perpetrated against America is justified…. that we have no right to tell Iran that they can’t have nuclear bombs….. that Israel brings those random rocket attacks on themselves…. that Chavez and Castro are heroes…. that North Korea is not a real threat.

Maybe that’s why my amygdala is bigger than yours…. I have to live in reality while you do not.

Bahahahahahahaha sure you do…..

Right wing self reliance is the biggest smatter of bullshit ever invented. You drool mongers would be lost without religion and big business telling you exactly what to do every minute of the day.

Tommy wrote: “While my fellow liberals will surely have some fun at conservatives’ expense, as have I, this kind of research runs counter to the basic human value of individuality.”

Science has been punching holes in our beliefs for decades now. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” Genetic research puts this “self-evident” truth to pasture; some people start life out with better genetic material.

One relevant question here is which came first, the fear or the larger amygdala? If the larger amygdala has a genetic factor, then fear could be part of conservative’s breeding. They don’t mean to be terrified by fear mongering; they were bred that way.

I won’t be adding this info to my year in Review post about America’s 2009 fear-monger-in-chief until the results are peer reviewed, but it’s fun to contemplate. One thing in this story that I didn’t know: Dennis Miller was a liberal?!?

Scott_in_MI said:
You don’t know what you’re talking about. Nazism is to the right of Communism, but only a tiny bit.

Do you even know what Nazi stands for? National SOCIALIST. Nazism has its roots in facism….facism has its roots in Progressivism. Guess which political party also has its roots in progressivism?

It was far leftist George Bernard Shaw who hailed Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini as the world’s great “progressive” leaders because they “did things,” unlike the leaders of those “putrefying corpses” called parliamentary democracies.

Well seeing as you know fuck all about Facism we now know to take your every word as a joke.

Jackie_Treehorn said:
Bahahahahahahaha sure you do….. Right wing self reliance is the biggest smatter of bullshit ever invented. You drool mongers would be lost without religion and big business telling you exactly what to do every minute of the day.

Such a rare combination of grace and insight….

felixw said:
Yawn, more attacks from the Left. Hey progressives, when are you going to stand up and defend big government instead of just mounting these spurious ad hominem attacks on people who disagree with you? How about engaging in a debate with leading conservatives on the merits of the trillion dollar stimulus and all your other failed spend-till-you-drop programs that have bankrupted the nation? Or maybe the fear center in YOUR brains doesn’t allow you to tackle THOSE issue.

Its hard to debate conservatives when all you get is Frank Luntz talking points; conservatives can’t think for themselves.

gordonbloyersshow said:
I AM LIVING PROOF OF THIS.

That said it all!! Thats why Fox uses the fear card. They want the sheep coming back to watch more. Thats why Beck says that he fears for his country and cries on his shows; its to keep people like you controlled by fear.

Yoda002 said:
Its hard to debate conservatives when all you get is Frank Luntz talking points; conservatives can’t think for themselves.

That’s funny. Every leftwinger who has chimed in on this thread sounds exactly the same. I wonder why that is….

FearMonger said:
Such a rare combination of grace and insight….

And yet you don’t deny it…..

Jackie_Treehorn said:
Well seeing as you know fuck all about Facism we now know to take your every word as a joke.

Thats all you got Skippy? Try refuting what I say tool.

Yoda002 said:
Its hard to debate conservatives when all you get is Frank Luntz talking points; conservatives can’t think for themselves.

You wanna know why it’s ‘hard to debate conservatives’? Because liberals start off the discussion with shit like this….

“In a revelation that’s sure to make many liberals scratch their heads and say, “Wait, what? Conservatives have brains?”

and

“Until then, though, look out! A spider!!”

Just take a look at the comments. All the usual suspects show up when they have a red meat offering from good ol’ dependable TC but but but…. on threads where the topic of discussion is a flat-out lie told by one of their left-wing heroes they are conspicuously absent.

Leftwingers are a joke. You don’t want ‘debate’…. you want echo chambers.

Jackie_Treehorn said:
And yet you don’t deny it…..

‘deny’ what exactly JT? That I “would be lost without religion and big business telling you exactly what to do every minute of the day”.

Yeah. You got me. Big Business checks on me every minute. How can I argue with that?

btw…. I still prefer to be a puppet of those two masters than a puppet of big government like you WH parrotheads.

FearMonger said:
You wanna know why it’s ‘hard to debate conservatives’? Because liberals start off the discussion with shit like this….

“In a revelation that’s sure to make many liberals scratch their heads and say, “Wait, what? Conservatives have brains?”

and

“Until then, though, look out! A spider!!”

Just take a look at the comments. All the usual suspects show up when they have a red meat offering from good ol’ dependable TC but but but…. on threads where the topic of discussion is a flat-out lie told by one of their left-wing heroes they are conspicuously absent.

Leftwingers are a joke. You don’t want ‘debate’…. you want echo chambers.

Another conservative reaction; they have to get their friends to defend their point of view.

It’s not that Conservatives have bigger fear centers, it’s that Liberals have smaller ones. They have smaller fear centers because they ignore so many facts that they numb themselves of inputs that might disturb their little Utopia.

News Corp has long discovered the finding in this research; that is how they built the successful business model that they now have: playing on the bigger fear centers of conservatives.Further study would reveal that conservatives have diminished reasoning capacity, and that their mind has racism and hate as the default setting.

Conservatives are controlled by fear and hate and Fox uses it beautifully. When ever FOX comes out with a fake news story the conservatives run around like a chicken with his head cut off and nobody knows what to do, so they turn to Frank Luntz for a set of talking points. At 4:30 am a email is sent out and the talking points are in motion. Turn on Rush he uses those talking points. Turn on Levin he uses those talking points. And by the afternoon the talking points are repeated by Republican members of Congress. But, by the time it gets to Sarah Palin she makes up words because she can’t read the writing on her hands.

This study is scaring the hell out of conservatives.

Why Conservatives are the way they are is certainly something to ponder. I’m fascinated by how rightwing people are completely taken in by inauthentic and phony behavior. For instance, Bush II was from the gitgo one of the most unqualified people ever to get into the national political arena. Everything about him (his awkward strutting, verbal confusion) was a giveaway to his poor qualifications as a leader – at least someone like Sarah Palin has charisma if nothing else. Also, how can anyone watch Glenn Beck and much of what’s on Fox for 1 minute and not be aware that this guy is certainly not playing with a full deck. Rightwingers have a rigid, authoritarian mindset – everything has its place and you mustn’t change anything. It’s ironic that the qualities that have made this country great run counter to what conservatives believe. They are the people who would have sided with the British in revolutionary times; would have been pro-slavery (Lincoln was definitely not a Republican in the modern sense); fought FDR on every point as he tried to get us out of the 1929 recessions – they’re against social security, decent universal health care; they fell for the southern strategy when most of the white southerners switched to republicanism after Lyndon Johnson’s second emanicipation of African-Americans in the 1960′s; and probably, worst of all, they are very un-Christian in their love of war, being even more responsible than the Democrats for the endless wars we’ve been in. I don’t mean to absolve the Democrats – they’ve been almost as bad as the Republicans. It’s just that amongst the modern Democratic Party there is a minority of fairly decent, astute people including Obama who, of course, is a Muslim, fascist, socialist foreigner. I just hope and pray that more Republican, teabagging types will wake up and see how they’ve allowed themselves to be manipulated by bad propaganda and phony myths.

Not a surprise in the least. The part of the brain that isn’t full of fear is full of shit and that actually makes up the largest portion of the conservative brain and therefore, they are often referred to as shit for brains. If you read some of the conservative comments, you’ll understand why.

So let me get this straight.
Living off mom and dad professor indoctrinated college students who never paid a bill in there lives yet and the non tax paying Welfare recipients and the economy destroying union worker along with the uneducated inner city entitlement expecting Jerry Springer types are more normal because they are not conservative.

But the people that want less government, who love this country and history that are Hard working small business owners and majority of the people who keep us all safe the police and fire are the ones who have brain damage.

Yeah this sounds like a crackpot university study

LibertySister said:
So let me get this straight.
Living off mom and dad professor indoctrinated college students who never paid a bill in there lives yet and the non tax paying Welfare recipients and the economy destroying union worker along with the uneducated inner city entitlement expecting Jerry Springer types are more normal because they are not conservative.

But the people that want less government, who love this country and history that are Hard working small business owners and majority of the people who keep us all safe the police and fire are the ones who have brain damage.

Yeah this sounds like a crackpot university study

Still waiting for you to get it straight. Put down the meth pipe and take your time.

Cute Tommy but typical leftard behavior. O.K. An uber lefty university study by an uber lefty scientist in an uber lefty progressive country/continent says what? Perhaps what they actually meant to say was that the amygdala is the hominid seat of emotions: love, hate, fear etc., that they used the lead “fear” is simple, they are uber lefty progressives that cannot see any forest for the trees; tell you the sky is grey when it’s blue; and are so completely brainwashed from conception by their uber lefty progressive mothers(sic) that it’s a wonder they manage at all….well, they don’t manage, they either come from money or get into positions get lots of money then tell the rest of the world they are right and the world is wrong. Too bad that the fruit of their labors is coming home to roost in all those parts of the world that aren’t run by brutish dictators. Those countries where these loons rule are out of money, broke, bankrupt, capoot, borrowed out. So, their “supporters”, you know, unions and such, are now rioting in the streets, burning up whatever they can and breaking every window available. Welcome to that non-fearful place the exact opposite of nirvana called Progressive Socialism!!! And the USA needs to watch out…we are on the brink also!!

ganymede said:
They are the people who would have sided with the British in revolutionary times;

Correct me if I’m wrong, aren’t Conservatives the believers of limited government, lower taxes, greater individual freedom? Just like our Founding Fathers…but you obviously don’t know that judging from the above comment.

SarahP said:
Still waiting for you to get it straight. Put down the meth pipe and take your time.

Hey look, its MY puppet

SarahP said:
Not a surprise in the least. The part of the brain that isn’t full of fear is full of shit and that actually makes up the largest portion of the conservative brain and therefore, they are often referred to as shit for brains. If you read some of the conservative comments, you’ll understand why.

Actually, SarahP, You can read? Wouldn’t know by your comments!

Scott_in_MI said:
Correct me if I’m wrong, aren’t Conservatives the believers of limited government, lower taxes, greater individual freedom? Just like our Founding Fathers…but you obviously don’t know that judging from the above comment.

In fact, there were many of those types of people who fled at the end of the American Revolution and returned to England (where they write these “studies”) or went up to Canada.

Read my comment @ 6:17 to explain yourself, if possible, to yourself.

Scott_in_MI said:
Hey look, its MY puppet

Hey look its my bitch.

Nacho said:

December 29, 2010 at 5:24 pm Nacho(Qu

Nah Nacho, we do, contrary to uberleft progressive loon studies, have brains. But, we use them unlike your ilk.

ganymede said:
they fell for the southern strategy when most of the white southerners switched to republicanism after Lyndon Johnson’s second emanicipation of African-Americans in the 1960’s;

If you had the ability to check things out for yourself instead of listening to someone else like a zombie, you’ll see that the number of southern Dems switching over to the Rep (house and senate) was under 5 for the entire 1960s . It was the Dem party which began the KKK; it was them who arrested Rosa Parks, MLK; it was Dems who used German Sheppards to attack civil rights marchers; it was a recent Dem Senator who was the head of West Virginia’s KKK.

Please havee the facts if you’re gonna make a point.

Not surprisingly, conservatives reacted to the news with panic.

Scott_in_MI said:
If you had the ability to check things out for yourself instead of listening to someone else like a zombie, you’ll see that the number of southern Dems switching over to the Rep (house and senate) was under 5 for the entire 1960s . It was the Dem party which began the KKK; it was them who arrested Rosa Parks, MLK; it was Dems who used German Sheppards to attack civil rights marchers; it was a recent Dem Senator who was the head of West Virginia’s KKK.

Please havee the facts if you’re gonna make a point.

Scott, don’t you need to impregnate a relative right about now?

SarahP said:
Hey look its my bitch.

Lets see, do I wanna show the world how I CONTROL YOU? or shall I let my little racist puppet rest today?

SarahP said:
Scott, don’t you need to impregnate a relative right about now?

Poor SarahP is to ignorant to refute anything I say

BobHahn said:
Like Michael Vick, Tommy Christopher is an offensive, puerile affront to humanity. The fact that he is considered by management to be worth publishing tells us that Mediaite is ultimately hopeless. I’ll be leaving now. I won’t waste my time here again.

Scared you, didn’t he?

What liberals call ‘the open-mindedness gene’ is what the rest of us perceive as the gene that prohibits original thought.

RIChris said:
What liberals call ‘the open-mindedness gene’ is what the rest of us perceive as the gene that prohibits original thought.

You don’t see the internal contradiction there, do you? “The rest of us” all think the same thing, which is supposedly “original thought.”

Interesting definition of “original” you have there. But I suppose it makes more sense from within the hive mind.

Sue said:
Cute Tommy but typical leftard behavior. O.K. An uber lefty university study by an uber lefty scientist in an uber lefty progressive country/continent says what? Perhaps what they actually meant to say was that the amygdala is the hominid seat of emotions: love, hate, fear etc., that they used the lead “fear” is simple, they are uber lefty progressives that cannot see any forest for the trees; tell you the sky is grey when it’s blue; and are so completely brainwashed from conception by their uber lefty progressive mothers(sic) that it’s a wonder they manage at all….well, they don’t manage, they either come from money or get into positions get lots of money then tell the rest of the world they are right and the world is wrong. Too bad that the fruit of their labors is coming home to roost in all those parts of the world that aren’t run by brutish dictators. Those countries where these loons rule are out of money, broke, bankrupt, capoot, borrowed out. So, their “supporters”, you know, unions and such, are now rioting in the streets, burning up whatever they can and breaking every window available. Welcome to that non-fearful place the exact opposite of nirvana called Progressive Socialism!!! And the USA needs to watch out…we are on the brink also!!

Who do you think you are bringing actual facts into an argument like this? Leftists CANT debate with facts (they get crushed everytime) so they use emotion for their “arguments”

Scott_in_MI said:
Poor SarahP is to ignorant to refute anything I say

That’s “refudiate” my genetically challenged friend.

Scott_in_MI said:
Who do you think you are bringing actual facts into an argument like this? Leftists CANT debate with facts (they get crushed everytime) so they use emotion for their “arguments”

Yeah, way to prove your courage — freaking out over the imminent collapse of western civilization and riots in the streets.

What a completely logical and unemotional assessment of the state of the US. Not insane or paranoid or cowardly at all.

Scott_in_MI said:
Lets see, do I wanna show the world how I CONTROL YOU? or shall I let my little racist puppet rest today?

You mean that little racist puppet you got there between your legs?

Finally Gordon Blower’s “liberal gene” theory has been proven.

They’re not as scared or as big of cowards than your average conservative and its because of their genes.

SarahP said:
That’s “refudiate” my genetically challenged friend.

whatever it is, you still can’t do it.

perhaps I should use my control over you to force the ability to debate into your mind. nah, I wont do that. If you have any brains, you wont be so easy to control.

Wisco said:
Yeah, way to prove your courage — freaking out over the imminent collapse of western civilization and riots in the streets. What a completely logical and unemotional assessment of the state of the US. Not insane or paranoid or cowardly at all.

what the hell are you talking about? who’s freaking out? who’s rioting? what are you smoking?

Scott_in_MI said:
whatever it is, you still can’t do it.

perhaps I should use my control over you to force the ability to debate into your mind. nah, I wont do that. If you have any brains, you wont be so easy to control.

I was wondering where my bitch went. Scott, you should use your little racist puppet between your legs to control me. Best of luck my genetically challenged friend.

PS – You will let us know when you impregnate your second cousin?

SarahP said:
I was wondering where my bitch went. Scott, you should use your little racist puppet between your legs to control me. Best of luck my genetically challenged friend. PS – You will let us know when you impregnate your second cousin?

my power over you is shown with each personal attack you make…its all you got, so when I DECIDE TO PRESS A BUTTON ON YOU, your only recourse to to fire personal attacks. Poor poor SarahP

Scott_in_MI said:
my power over you is shown with each personal attack you make…its all you got, so when I DECIDE TO PRESS A BUTTON ON YOU, your only recourse to to fire personal attacks. Poor poor SarahP

There’s my little bitch, i was wondering what happened to your stupid ass. And here you are with even more stupidity. Listen, you are an abortion. Nothing more, a complete waste of human flesh. Your second cousin can attest to that.

Alz says:
“It’s not that Conservatives have bigger fear centers, it’s that Liberals have smaller ones.”

Alz, it’s called courage. I just love the ways that conservatives twist and spin the facts that don’t accord with their world view. On one level it’s humorous. On another level, it’s pathetic.

You need to acquire and read True Enough by Manjoo. He helps bring the psychological factors into focus. Short of that, read for your own sake this essay on resisting self-delusion. It helps explain why facts take a second row seat to ideology and beliefs.

Georgia999 said:
How about you freaks do the same thing? …..turn off your low-rated MSNBC and take a listen to the alternatives out there. Air America is already gone (because so few of you listened), soon MSNBC will be gone because there are so few of you out there. I think you exist, NOT because of what you believe, you exist just to bash FOX….you have no other reason for being!!!!

Hey if I didn’t know the alternatives, how could I bash them. It sounds to me that you are contradicting yourself.

Scott_in_MI said:
Sue said:
Cute Tommy but typical leftard behavior. O.K. An uber lefty university study by an uber lefty scientist in an uber lefty progressive country/continent says what? Perhaps what they actually meant to say was that the amygdala is the hominid seat of emotions: love, hate, fear etc., that they used the lead “fear” is simple, they are uber lefty progressives that cannot see any forest for the trees; tell you the sky is grey when it’s blue; and are so completely brainwashed from conception by their uber lefty progressive mothers(sic) that it’s a wonder they manage at all….well, they don’t manage, they either come from money or get into positions get lots of money then tell the rest of the world they are right and the world is wrong. Too bad that the fruit of their labors is coming home to roost in all those parts of the world that aren’t run by brutish dictators. Those countries where these loons rule are out of money, broke, bankrupt, capoot, borrowed out. So, their “supporters”, you know, unions and such, are now rioting in the streets, burning up whatever they can and breaking every window available. Welcome to that non-fearful place the exact opposite of nirvana called Progressive Socialism!!! And the USA needs to watch out…we are on the brink also!!

You said:

Who do you think you are bringing actual facts into an argument like this? Leftists CANT debate with facts (they get crushed everytime) so they use emotion for their “arguments”

Interesting definition of the words “facts,” there bud. Someone has a paranoid fantasy freak out and you call it “fact.” Thanks for proving the study right. Sounds like you’re afraid of your own shadow.

Scott_in_MI said:
Thats all you got Skippy? Try refuting what I say tool.

Well how did Fascism come from Progressivism? I’ll wait…..

God I love internet smart guys like yourself. Just look like a jackass again and again….

As those with a fetish for doomsday push their global warming agenda, hoping to persuade the deniers through fear, conservitives aren’t buying. This is not an act of a fearful person.

A person that says “I am reliant on only myself. I know I can make happen what I need to happen” is not a thought process of a fearful person.

Y’all enjoy your snark.

But intellectually honest, you ain’t

Scott_in_MI said:
Who do you think you are bringing actual facts into an argument like this? Leftists CANT debate with facts (they get crushed everytime) so they use emotion for their “arguments”

But you’re still hilariously avoiding the Pew poll with the rest of your ilk….

Tommy Christopher writes of:> a new study by Great Britain’s University College London has found that conservatives’ brains have larger fear centers, and smaller courage and optimism dealies.

This must be why liberals have always been better at winning Darwin Awards.

GlennBeckReview said:
Alz says:
“It’s not that Conservatives have bigger fear centers, it’s that Liberals have smaller ones.”

Alz, it’s called courage. I just love the ways that conservatives twist and spin the facts that don’t accord with their world view. On one level it’s humorous. On another level, it’s pathetic.

You need to acquire and read True Enough by Manjoo. He helps bring the psychological factors into focus. Short of that, read for your own sake this essay on resisting self-delusion. It helps explain why facts take a second row seat to ideology and beliefs.

Talking about psychology, read “The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness” (http://www.amazon.com/Liberal-Mind-Psychological-Political-Madness/dp/097795630X/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top) It’s a good read on the subject.

Jackie_Treehorn said:
Well how did Fascism come from Progressivism? I’ll wait…..
….

Answer: Progressives were ENAMORED with Fascism. They loved it. Read up on Margaret Sanger, who founded Planned Parenthood. It was originally about getting rid of “imbeciles”, Blacks, etc. Hitler got some of his ideas from Sanger.

Here are some quotes from the Liberal Ms. Sanger:

“The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”
- Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

“Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.”
- Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

“We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population…”
- Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

“Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need … We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.”
- Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

“Among our more than 100,000,000 population, are Negroes, Indians, Chinese and other colored people to the number of 11,000,000…Do these elements give promise of a better race? [and] are we doing anything genuinely constructive to overcome this situation?”
- Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

Hitler apparently liked what he read/heard.

Also, to connect that this abhorrent liberal thinking is still around, what did Ruth Bader Ginsberg say two years ago about Roe v Wade: Answer: “Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”?

Remember, Fascism is on the Left, not the Right.

shootfromthehip said:
This explains everything.

Scared little babies crying and/or irrational fear reptiles.

That’s your average Fox viewer.

Reptile-like brains incapable of higher reasoning or critical thought.

Uneducated and more like dogs than humans, which explains why when Fox news whistles “here boy!” they all run.

And they should all just be rounded up and exterminated for the good of the human race.

Right?

Poor effort at mischief, sad-Tommy of the slow-lands. You say “suggest” but the study says “found.” At any rate, i’m very proud of my swollen amygdala. I don’t think you’re courageous; just naive!

Now I know.
Seriously. I have sooooo often seen conservatives claiming that “this must scare the liberals” “the liberals must be scared” and “why do I see so much hate coming from liberals.”
Most of all, conservatives seem truly paranoid about government in any form, and that is fear.
Yet they talk tough. They talk tougher than is reasonable, and that is a clear flag of fear.

There is nothing scientific about my observation because the most fear-ridden conservatives concentrate themselves on postings just like this one.

Well nothing new there. Right wing being paranoid muppets. Chill out guys, embrace the Muslims, you’ll be fine.

Sue also sees 2012 from her window in Utah said:
Actually, SarahP, You can read? Wouldn’t know by your comments!

Hi, Michelle!

Let me help the liberals out with this one, since science is not always a strength in the liberal groups (they tend towards the ‘arts major’ variety… The brain has a basic concept of neurplasticity, which is the simple concept of you ‘use it or lose it’. The more you do anything, the more neuropathways or ‘thickness’ of brain tissue’ you create. Doesn’t mean your born a certain way, we all know babies can do very little. The brain develops by doing and learning whether you are 1 yrs old or 81. In fact, we’re all a ‘work in progress’.

As to fear, without fear we’d all be doing lots of stupid things. Without fear we might spend what we can’t afford, cheat on our spouses, lie etc.

Wait, maybe the researchers are on to something….

Alz said:
Remember, Fascism is on the Left, not the Right.

Really?

“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini

Jackie_Treehorn said:
Well how did Fascism come from Progressivism? I’ll wait….. God I love internet smart guys like yourself. Just look like a jackass again and again….

Look above and you’ll see that Alz answered your question…now son, lets see you refute that.

Jackie_Treehorn said:
But you’re still hilariously avoiding the Pew poll with the rest of your ilk….

Pew poll? What the hell are you talking about?

Wisco said:
You said: Interesting definition of the words “facts,” there bud. Someone has a paranoid fantasy freak out and you call it “fact.” Thanks for proving the study right. Sounds like you’re afraid of your own shadow.

Where’s the paranoid fantasy? The leftist Euro countries going bankrupt? The union thugs rioting it Europe’s streets?

Why don’t you pick up a newspaper sometime and see whats going on in the world

Alz said:
Answer: Progressives were ENAMORED with Fascism. They loved it. Read up on Margaret Sanger, who founded Planned Parenthood. It was originally about getting rid of “imbeciles”, Blacks, etc. Hitler got some of his ideas from Sanger.

Here are some quotes from the Liberal Ms. Sanger:

“The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”
-Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

“Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.”
-Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

“We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population…”
-Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

“Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need … We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.”
-Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

“Among our more than 100,000,000 population, are Negroes, Indians, Chinese and other colored people to the number of 11,000,000…Do these elements give promise of a better race? [and] are we doing anything genuinely constructive to overcome this situation?”
-Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood

Hitler apparently liked what he read/heard.

Also, to connect that this abhorrent liberal thinking is still around, what did Ruth Bader Ginsberg say two years ago about Roe v Wade: Answer: “Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”?

Remember, Fascism is on the Left, not the Right.

Um ok…..so the founder of Planned Parenthood hated minorities. Now I understand that smokescreens are what the right loves but I don’t fall for your BS.

So once again where is the proof that Facism came from Progressivism?

Scott_in_MI said:
Look above and you’ll see that Alz answered your question…now son, lets see you refute that.

By showing quotes that the founder hated minorities shows that Facism is based off Progressivism? K glad to see my point was proven about how truly “intelligent” you are.

Scott_in_MI said:
Pew poll? What the hell are you talking about?

The one from 07 with such brainbutsters as “Who controls Congress” and “Name the President of Russia” that FAUX viewers also failed miserably and the right is ignoring while jumping all over the U of M poll….

Alz said:

Remember, Fascism is on the Left, not the Right.

Actually financially the Fascists despised socialism along with capitalism and supported a “third position” in which they envisioned capitalism and labor working together.

And actually the far right ties to Fascism come mostly from the Fascists extreme views of nationalism and their embrace of conservatism (all except for conservatives disagreement with progress of society).

Damn you liberal University masters degree in History!!!! You make it too easy to use facts to stomp right wingers when they use a Left Wing racist to tie Fascism to Progressivism…..

JamesA1102 said:
Really?

“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini

Wrong.

There is no time along the Left-Right continuum where Limited Government and Individual Freedom turn into Fascism. Fascism is to the left because it’s about more control. The collusion with companies is just a feature and, at some point, those companies just become an extension of government. This is not Conservative.

Everyone who wonders how Fascism could be on the Left should watch this short video:
“Types of Government Republic vs Democracy vs Oligarchy”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRQ76FYvw7M

“liberals”/progressives/…”etc” – have ‘SLUSH’…??..

It’s a known fact that conservative viewers, listeners and readers are better informed than your garden-variety liberal when you consider what the government schools and state-controlled media doesn’t tell them. There are two sides to this issue one believes government (man) is God and your rights come from it, the other believes God is God and our rights and law come from him extending through God’s law into the fundamental principles of our founding documents of self-evident truth, natural law.

As far as this study is concerned it’s BS or just maybe they’re interpreting the data by looking through the wrong end of the telescope! America is at a crossroads either we will plunge headfirst into socialism and continue to lose our individual rights and liberty we will stand up and restore our Constitutional Republic that is if our society has become so corrupt we are unable to be self-governing anymore.

God help us, time will tell.

“Man, considered as a creature, must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator. This will of his Maker is called the law of nature. This law of nature, being coveal with mankind, and dictated by God Himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe in all countries at all times. No human laws are of any validity if they are contrary to this.” Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Law

Alz said:
Wrong.

There is no time along the Left-Right continuum where Limited Government and Individual Freedom turn into Fascism. Fascism is to the left because it’s about more control. The collusion with companies is just a feature and, at some point, those companies just become an extension of government. This is not Conservative.

I disagree with the concept of big government/small government. Government, at its most basic, is just a bunch of required social services. The difference is whether those services are provided by public or private entities. The size of government remains the same, it’s just the nature of the provider that changes.

Wisco said:
Not surprisingly, conservatives reacted to the news with panic.

http://superstore.wnd.com/The-Liberal-Mind-The-Psychological-Causes-of-Political-Madness-Paperback

Hey look, we can shove your idiotic crap back in your face.

Hey geniuses, anyone here realize that this is a BRITISH study?

I’m sorry, but their politics are not the same- I could give you numerous examples of the differences between conservatives in this country and the Tories of the UK. Mainly though, Americans are just different people brought up differently.

For American conservatives, religion is more tied into their political beliefs, and the idea of liberty and self reliance is much more ingrained within their core political beliefs. Its really a very different political dynamic, so how could the two conservative brains be identical if their politics are so different? Its just doesnt make sense.

So please liberals, spare me your predictable Palovian response to these studies and think for yourselves for once.

I know, its hard, because a person with a white coat and a degree says its so, so you are programmed to believe it, but try thinking for yourselves for once, and you may be surprised to realize that not every scientific hypothesis becomes a theory.

Happy new year.

I posted some comments from the original story:

“I am a neurobiologist. I literally laughed out loud at the statement that the anterior cingulate cortex is where optimism and bravery happen. Absolute nonsense!

I am a big old lefty and I wish it were true but that is just nonsense. ”

“Just a suggestion for Mr. Alleyne, but you really need to do a bit more research on current studies of the amygdalas and anterior cingulate. As stated in numerous studies, the amygdalas is actually linked to emotional MEMORY. In other words, the amygdalas is tied to enhanced memory because of the mental tie to emotions as well as events. Additionally the amygdalas has been linked to the DETECTION of fear and general emotions in others (specifically facial expressions), not the actual feeling of fear by the individual.

Just a suggestion, but if you are going to write an article like this, it would be best to actually do some research into what the parts of of the brain are supposed to do (from recent studies). ”

I mean, you can poke so many holes in this study I dont know where to begin!

Yet, right on cue, you have every liberal commenter on mediaite chiming in on it as if it were gospel.

It would be funny if it weren’t so damn predictable.

Just4thefax said:
“it’s a blend of fascist, Communist, and socialist ideologies from twentieth century Europe, with a pinch of Nazism, .”

shootfromthehip says:
“You have no fucking idea what you are talking about.”

You realize that he and others get this kind of nonsense from Glenn Beck. Like Fox on steroids, Beck stupifies his viewers.

Here is a question.
If all the conservatives were removed from mankind, how long would the liberals last?
And vice versa.

I predict that if mankind were to ultimately survive, those remaining liberals would necessarily have to produce some conservatives (like white corpusles) in time, or would die of a form of Aids,
Wayne Harropson

That is because conservatives have a better grasp on reality than liberals do. Liberals are more Pollyannaish.

Now we know the problem!!!

!!!Attention!!!
It has been discovered that Conservatives have a brain defect, which helps explain the contemptuous criminal activity throughout their history of existence!!! The problem has been discovered deep within the small chunk of grey matter within their large water-soaked cranium call an “Amygdala’s”!!! This pea-sized brain matter in normal (non-conservative) thinking humans has become a larger worthless mass in Conservatives, which has accelerated the growth of their stupid gene, causing irrational, whiny, behavior depicted by uncontrolled balling, temper tamper antics and complete fear-mongering based decision making…
The University College of Great Britain, London have made this discovery after observing the continual odd behavior of the adult Conservative population, by scanning subject specimens from each side of the aisle with an MRI… This MRI scan revealed this major defect within the Conservative specimens… There appears to be a lack of civilized development from the primitive function of this brain area… Details at 11:00!!!

Thank you, hope it helps, now that we know, does this mean lobotomies for the impaired or subjugation?

WHarropson said:
Here is a question.
If all the conservatives were removed from mankind, how long would the liberals last?

I think here would be an interesting development. If all conservatives were removed from mankind, it would be like a wonderful revelation too mankind. In a sense, as such as finding a cure for all cancers, thus removing the potential of a hideous debilitating, death causing disease, you think? You have to take in the BIG picture Wayne. Wouldn’t that make mankind a healthier species?

Males have larger amygdalas.
http://www.bionity.com/en/encyclopedia/Amygdala.html

Females have larger anterior cingulate cortices.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/business/media/25adco.html

Also see here
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/social-networking-amygdala/
:D

Aha!!!!! See how they play this! “Fear” center should be labeled “concern” center… then all this rhetoric vanishes.

Mr. Pooh said:
Now we know the problem!!!

!!!Attention!!!
It has been discovered that Conservatives have a brain defect, which helps explain the contemptuous criminal activity throughout their history of existence!!! The problem has been discovered deep within the small chunk of grey matter within their large water-soaked cranium call an “Amygdala’s”!!! This pea-sized brain matter in normal (non-conservative) thinking humans has become a larger worthless mass in Conservatives, which has accelerated the growth of their stupid gene, causing irrational, whiny, behavior depicted by uncontrolled balling, temper tamper antics and complete fear-mongering based decision making…
The University College of Great Britain, London have made this discovery after observing the continual odd behavior of the adult Conservative population, by scanning subject specimens from each side of the aisle with an MRI… This MRI scan revealed this major defect within the Conservative specimens… There appears to be a lack of civilized development from the primitive function of this brain area… Details at 11:00!!!

Thank you, hope it helps, now that we know, does this mean lobotomies for the impaired or subjugation?

Liberals have a brain defect… they have areas that are smaller………., hmmm, if I remember my basic math, smaller is Less Than larger……… nice try, Stunted Brain.

wow, look who’s getting all emotional and defensive. what are you AFRAID of, man? 

I would hazard a guess that conservative pundits tend to have higher ratings than liberal pundits not because there are more conservatives, but because liberals generally don’t like their news filtered through unstable personalities.

like MSLSD or the communist news network