What makes one Conservative?

[Samson]

What makes one Conservative?

The same thing that makes someone Liberal. Stupidity and the inability to think for themselves.

Sheple come in both ideologies.

But few are actually purely devoted.

In the USA conservative normally means adhering to an orthodox interpretation of the Constitution regardless of common sense. Liberal interpretations generally are flexible to the extent that they increase the bureaucracy of government and decrease individual freedom.

 

[The Rabbi]

What makes one Conservative?

The same thing that makes someone Liberal. Stupidity and the inability to think for themselves.

Sheple come in both ideologies.

But few are actually purely devoted.

In the USA conservative normally means adhering to an orthodox interpretation of the Constitution regardless of common sense. Liberal interpretations generally are flexible to the extent that they increase the bureaucracy of government and decrease individual freedom.

Can you give an example of adhering to the Constitution regardless of common sense?

 

[AvgGuyIA]

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.

The founders gave us a way to change the law and it wasn't by Executive Order.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

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

Cosmopolitan Magazine Offers Sexual Positions For Lesbians

not a bit hot..., they ain't nekkid ! ....

The best presents are wrapped little man...

Typically Dykes don't look like that.

 

[kwc57]

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

As a life long Democrat (57 years old), the Democrat party is what made me conservative. I got informed and woke up and smelled the coffee. Most people who quit getting spoon fed by the media and decide to ferret out the facts and truth as opposed to opinion usually do become conservative.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

...what kinda silly perverted fetish is it to watch 2 girls cuddle anyways....?

Male, at least for those of us who can still get it on that is...

A male watching two women have sex equates to "getting it on"? Ah, yes...this is where you demonstrate how much liberals respect women...right Paint? Conservatives are waging a "war" on women!!!! You on the other hand get off watching them have sex? Don't see much "respect" there, little buddy. Just sayin'...

If you don't see the respect in that I can't help you, and no, that is not gettin' it on but it can certainly can be a prelude to.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

not a bit hot..., they ain't nekkid ! ....

The best presents are wrapped little man...

Typically Dykes don't look like that.

Neither do typical straights, kind of the point here eh?

 

[PaintMyHouse]

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.

The founders gave us a way to change the law and it wasn't by Executive Order.

They gave us that way too, and don't forget the courts, which change it rather dramatically at times.

 

[Freewill]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acQluy7nymw]Why I'm A Conservative Republican - YouTube[/ame]

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Like most progressives, women are just sex objects to Paint.

That, any many other things. Would you prefer I thought you were a sex object instead?

 

[Freewill]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRMmhT0UMwk]From the Donkey's Mouth - YouTube[/ame]

 

[sealybobo]

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

Greed, Ignorance, Religion & Racism.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Denial abounds. Another conservative trait?

like Liberals never deny stuff.....right Wry?....read some of the shit Guno puts up....he wont even discuss it if someone says he is wrong...Jones is another one...

 

[Harry Dresden]

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 became "fairly Liberal?......yea your eyes were opened.....if you became someone who had their eyes opened you would recognize the bull with both parties and would have issues with both sides and would say so....

 

[Harry Dresden]

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..

These people are called liberals.

some are called Conservatives too.....i have had a few "Conservatives" here start the name calling at me because i had the gall and audacity to defend some Unions talked about here......and i said i was....."gasp".....a federal worker....

 

[Harry Dresden]

Alternet. That's a big fail right there.

What makes someone conservative? Knowledge, intelligence,maturity.
What makes someone liberal? Lack of those things.

We see it here every day. Liberals throw boatloads of erroneous "facts" and logical fallacies along with emotional arguments and conservatives respond with logic and facts.

really?.....Shootspeaders thinks he is a Conservative,ever see his shit?.....and you should talk Rabbi....i have in my years here only been negged 4 times.....twice by you... JUST for disagreeing with you about Unions and Med Pot.....real Mature and Intelligent....right?.....

 

[Harry Dresden]

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.

hey Jones?....even though i know you are to chicken shit to reply.....explain how my pretty Liberal State voted down gay marriage rights,not once,but twice?...

 

[Harry Dresden]

What makes one Conservative

Hatred, fear, and paranoia. And a need for government to legislate morality.

lots of Liberals like that too.....lots out here....

 

[Harry Dresden]

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

As a life long Democrat (57 years old), the Democrat party is what made me conservative. I got informed and woke up and smelled the coffee. Most people who quit getting spoon fed by the media and decide to ferret out the facts and truth as opposed to opinion usually do become conservative.

most people when they "wake up" will find they can see that both parties are screwing the country and will distance themselves from each party.....and i bet everyone,except the Far Right and Left has some Conservative and Liberal traits,depending on the topic.....

 

[kwc57]

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

As a life long Democrat (57 years old), the Democrat party is what made me conservative. I got informed and woke up and smelled the coffee. Most people who quit getting spoon fed by the media and decide to ferret out the facts and truth as opposed to opinion usually do become conservative.

most people when they "wake up" will find they can see that both parties are screwing the country and will distance themselves from each party.....and i bet everyone,except the Far Right and Left has some Conservative and Liberal traits,depending on the topic.....

Agreed. I was never a fan of Bush/Republicans or Obama/Democrats. Ron Paul influenced me. If you wanted to hang a label on me, I'm a conservative libertarian. Both parties suck........but usually the one that happens to be in power at any given time sucks more than the other.