What makes one Conservative?

[Avatar4321]

A desire for self government, a love of the Constitution, and the ability to realize that spending away our childrens future for things the government shouldnt be spending money on is incredibly stupid.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

A desire for self government, a love of the Constitution, and the ability to realize that spending away our childrens future for things the government shouldnt be spending money on is incredibly stupid.

What shouldn't we spend money on? Let's do that math eh?

Name the program, and the cost?

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

A desire for self government, a love of the Constitution, and the ability to realize that spending away our childrens future for things the government shouldnt be spending money on is incredibly stupid.

What shouldn't we spend money on? Let's do that math eh?

Name the program, and the cost?

Avatar just mindlessly mouths conservative talking points. It's sort of like hearing a fly buzz around your head.

The definition for political conservative is that of resisting change, to conserve. Even Thomas Jefferson warned that we would need to modify and alter the laws in this country, using the analogy of a boy outgrowing his clothes.

So these incredibly dense Republicans think we can still run the country like it has only 200,000 people spread across a 99.99% rural landscape of 1000 miles. That's a conservative for you.

 

[Listening]

We need opposing views, the problem is that many people do not know how to win an argument without putting hate in place of reason..

Helllllloooooooo

You don't win arguments.

Or maybe you can point to the large number of posters (or even one for that matter....he/she may exist....but I've not seen them) who have changed their points of view because they were argued off a position.

People come here to convince the other guy....not to be convinced.

 

[blackhawk]

Show us where I've trashed a response?

Your last post and also no one has really taken this thread serious and given any real responses to trash by and large conservatives are just making light of the thread and liberals are just responding with conservatives hate insert name here.

Show us before then? As usual, the trash-talk is off and running, that's what we do here.

You were just given a serious response by avatar and you dismissed it if he comes back and gives you list of programs and cost you will dismiss that as well. How about just admitting the truth all this is really about is telling conservatives every view, thought, idea, and opinion they have is wrong.

 

[Listening]

A desire for self government, a love of the Constitution, and the ability to realize that spending away our childrens future for things the government shouldnt be spending money on is incredibly stupid.

What shouldn't we spend money on? Let's do that math eh?

Name the program, and the cost?

Who is we ?

But to answer your question......

Research dollars at colleges.

 

[Listening]

What makes one Conservative?

The fear of change, diversity, dissent, and expressions of individual liberty, an unwarranted hostility toward persons and things perceived to be a 'threat.'

Conservatives are fundamentally reactionary and authoritarian, where conformity must be compelled and those who refuse to comply must be subject to punitive measures. The best known example of this is conservatives' hostility toward gay Americans, and the conservative effort to deny gay Americans their civil liberties absent any rational, factual motive or evidence justifying those on the right to indeed do so.

This is funny...way toooooo funny.

The GOP will put pro-choice speakers up at their conventions.

When was the last time you saw a pro-life speaker at a DNC ?

But the conservatives are authoritarian.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Something a bit more interesting than what's being posted today, although I'm using that term "conservative" loosely since nearly all here aren't conservative, they're Reactionary.


Scientists Discover the Fascinating Psychological Reason Why Conservatives Are…Conservative
Right-wing ideology is tailored to a particular psychological profile.

A large body of political scientists and political psychologists now concur that liberals and conservatives disagree about politics in part because they are different people at the level of personality, psychology, and even traits like physiology and genetics.

That's a big deal. It challenges everything that we thought we knew about politics—upending the idea that we get our beliefs solely from our upbringing, from our friends and families, from our personal economic interests, and calling into question the notion that in politics, we can really change (most of us, anyway).

The occasion of this revelation is a paper by John Hibbing of the University of Nebraska and his colleagues, arguing that political conservatives have a "negativity bias," meaning that they are physiologically more attuned to negative (threatening, disgusting) stimuli in their environments. (The paper can be read for free here.) In the process, Hibbing et al. marshal a large body of evidence, including their own experiments using eye trackers and other devices to measure the involuntary responses of political partisans to different types of images. One finding? That conservatives respond much more rapidly to threatening and aversive stimuli (for instance, images of "a very large spider on the face of a frightened person, a dazed individual with a bloody face, and an open wound with maggots in it," as one of their papers put it).

Scientists Discover the Fascinating Psychological Reason Why Conservatives Are?Conservative | Alternet

If this were truly unbiased research there would also be by the same people a study on what makes a liberal. But there never is, is there?

 

[Indeependent]

The very few ideologues I know on either side of the aisle refuse to discuss issues.
Having a choice, I would rather hang, albeit, for a VERY short while, with an OCD Conservative than an ADD Liberal.

 

[Listening]

Not this shit again.

It's not shit, it's psychology. Aren't you interested in why people are so wedded to their ideology? If you knew the dogs would always kill the cats, no matter what you did, wouldn't you keep them apart?

I used to be fairly conservative up until about 12 years ago and then had my eyes opened by someone in a position to know just what kind of shit Bush and Cheney were pulling on America with Iraq and Afghanistan. Then the Patriot Act and letting Wall Street go wild with the mortgage industry left me in shock.

So fine, 2004 and time to dump his ass. HELL NO, the idiots REELECTED HIM! Based on lies about a second attack on domestic soil by Al Queda.

I was done right then and there.

So you make your choices of ideology based on the actions of others.

How interesting.

Me. I detested Bush from the start, protested the wars before they started. And vomitted when I voted for him in 04 because of the alternative.

But that makes me no less conservative today than then.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Something a bit more interesting than what's being posted today, although I'm using that term "conservative" loosely since nearly all here aren't conservative, they're Reactionary.


Scientists Discover the Fascinating Psychological Reason Why Conservatives Are…Conservative
Right-wing ideology is tailored to a particular psychological profile.

A large body of political scientists and political psychologists now concur that liberals and conservatives disagree about politics in part because they are different people at the level of personality, psychology, and even traits like physiology and genetics.

That's a big deal. It challenges everything that we thought we knew about politics—upending the idea that we get our beliefs solely from our upbringing, from our friends and families, from our personal economic interests, and calling into question the notion that in politics, we can really change (most of us, anyway).

The occasion of this revelation is a paper by John Hibbing of the University of Nebraska and his colleagues, arguing that political conservatives have a "negativity bias," meaning that they are physiologically more attuned to negative (threatening, disgusting) stimuli in their environments. (The paper can be read for free here.) In the process, Hibbing et al. marshal a large body of evidence, including their own experiments using eye trackers and other devices to measure the involuntary responses of political partisans to different types of images. One finding? That conservatives respond much more rapidly to threatening and aversive stimuli (for instance, images of "a very large spider on the face of a frightened person, a dazed individual with a bloody face, and an open wound with maggots in it," as one of their papers put it).

Scientists Discover the Fascinating Psychological Reason Why Conservatives Are?Conservative | Alternet

This has squat to do with politics, and is pretty much junk as far as science is concerned.

 

[Bush92]

Belief in liberty and limited power of federal government. Respect for the Constitution of the United States and traditional family values.

 

[Listening]

If you don't find this hot, you are too conservative:

Cosmopolitan Magazine Offers Sexual Positions For Lesbians

And this would mean libs think with their dicks ?

 

[PaintMyHouse]

A desire for self government, a love of the Constitution, and the ability to realize that spending away our childrens future for things the government shouldnt be spending money on is incredibly stupid.

What shouldn't we spend money on? Let's do that math eh?

Name the program, and the cost?

Who is we ?

But to answer your question......

Research dollars at colleges.

Well that would equal a rounding error. Keep going.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

If you don't find this hot, you are too conservative:

Cosmopolitan Magazine Offers Sexual Positions For Lesbians

And this would mean libs think with their dicks ?

All men do...

 

[Listening]

I am not reading the study.

But what is a conservative.

I am much more moderate when discussing my city government than when discussing D.C.

What does that make me ?

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Something a bit more interesting than what's being posted today, although I'm using that term "conservative" loosely since nearly all here aren't conservative, they're Reactionary.


Scientists Discover the Fascinating Psychological Reason Why Conservatives Are…Conservative
Right-wing ideology is tailored to a particular psychological profile.

A large body of political scientists and political psychologists now concur that liberals and conservatives disagree about politics in part because they are different people at the level of personality, psychology, and even traits like physiology and genetics.

That's a big deal. It challenges everything that we thought we knew about politics—upending the idea that we get our beliefs solely from our upbringing, from our friends and families, from our personal economic interests, and calling into question the notion that in politics, we can really change (most of us, anyway).

The occasion of this revelation is a paper by John Hibbing of the University of Nebraska and his colleagues, arguing that political conservatives have a "negativity bias," meaning that they are physiologically more attuned to negative (threatening, disgusting) stimuli in their environments. (The paper can be read for free here.) In the process, Hibbing et al. marshal a large body of evidence, including their own experiments using eye trackers and other devices to measure the involuntary responses of political partisans to different types of images. One finding? That conservatives respond much more rapidly to threatening and aversive stimuli (for instance, images of "a very large spider on the face of a frightened person, a dazed individual with a bloody face, and an open wound with maggots in it," as one of their papers put it).

Scientists Discover the Fascinating Psychological Reason Why Conservatives Are?Conservative | Alternet

This has squat to do with politics, and is pretty much junk as far as science is concerned.

Meaning you ignored it, didn't read it, but hate it. Carry on...

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Not this shit again.

It's not shit, it's psychology. Aren't you interested in why people are so wedded to their ideology? If you knew the dogs would always kill the cats, no matter what you did, wouldn't you keep them apart?

The vast majority of human beings are not wedded to anything, the only people wedded to their ideology are idiots that refuse to think. The rest of us scoff at attempts on the part of idiots to prove the rest of us are just as stupid as they are.

Guess which category you just put yourself in.

 

[Listening]

What shouldn't we spend money on? Let's do that math eh?

Name the program, and the cost?

Who is we ?

But to answer your question......

Research dollars at colleges.

Well that would equal a rounding error. Keep going.

No.

You asked. I answered.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Something a bit more interesting than what's being posted today, although I'm using that term "conservative" loosely since nearly all here aren't conservative, they're Reactionary.


Scientists Discover the Fascinating Psychological Reason Why Conservatives Are…Conservative
Right-wing ideology is tailored to a particular psychological profile.

A large body of political scientists and political psychologists now concur that liberals and conservatives disagree about politics in part because they are different people at the level of personality, psychology, and even traits like physiology and genetics.

That's a big deal. It challenges everything that we thought we knew about politics—upending the idea that we get our beliefs solely from our upbringing, from our friends and families, from our personal economic interests, and calling into question the notion that in politics, we can really change (most of us, anyway).

The occasion of this revelation is a paper by John Hibbing of the University of Nebraska and his colleagues, arguing that political conservatives have a "negativity bias," meaning that they are physiologically more attuned to negative (threatening, disgusting) stimuli in their environments. (The paper can be read for free here.) In the process, Hibbing et al. marshal a large body of evidence, including their own experiments using eye trackers and other devices to measure the involuntary responses of political partisans to different types of images. One finding? That conservatives respond much more rapidly to threatening and aversive stimuli (for instance, images of "a very large spider on the face of a frightened person, a dazed individual with a bloody face, and an open wound with maggots in it," as one of their papers put it).

Scientists Discover the Fascinating Psychological Reason Why Conservatives Are?Conservative | Alternet

If this were truly unbiased research there would also be by the same people a study on what makes a liberal. But there never is, is there?

Oh but I'm sure there is. And just take his findings, and reverse them.