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Red Brains vs. Blue Brains?
eLoco writes "From the NYTimes (reg. req.): The Political Brain -- "Why do Republicans and Democrats differ so emphatically? Perhaps it's all in the head." Researchers from UCLA have seem to have found that liberals have, on average, a more active amygdala than conservatives. According to the article, studies of stroke victims "have persuasively shown that the amygdala plays a key role in the creation of emotions like fear or empathy." So is this scientific "proof" that liberals tend to be more compassionate but also more cowardly? [DISCLAIMER: this is not a troll; I am a liberal]. Regardless, this seems to have implications for more than just politics. Favorite quote: "Perhaps we form political affiliations by semiconsciously detecting commonalities with other people, commonalities that ultimately reflect a shared pattern of brain function.""
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red brain, blue brain, gnaa brain?
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Is anything anyone's fault or decision anymore? Damn I remember when people were fat, drunk, gay, disruptive and Communist of their own volition. Now everything is a malady, issue and disease.
Gone are the days where people are held responsible for their actions.
Perhaps Bush, with questionable actions of his own, is attempting to put people back in responsible possitions for what they have done. I think he needs to start back here at home, first.
And as I've said many times before, it starts with parenting. The United States lacks quality parenting.
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... who see the major candidates as, at best, ineffectual boobs and, at worst, buffoons pandering to interests quite different than those of their (supposed) constituency.
I'll concede that people do tend to gravitate towards like-minded people or those with similar outlooks, but pigeon-holing it into two buckets, a "liberal" and a "conservative" seems woefully inadequate and disingenuous.
Were I to sum up my own political disposition, I think I'd consider myself fiscally conservative and socially liberal... but when I look at what seems to pass as "liberal" and "conservative", frankly that description would be so ambiguous as to be completely uninformative.
I'd consider both Kerry and Bush as undisciplined and grossly simplistic in their thinking on the issues -- at least that's what's the message I receive from their own public statements and propaganda.
I think Nader made it on the ballot in my state, so now I have three twits to choose between come November. Hmmm, since none of the three reflect my own personal political views and none are likely to do much that I approve of, it's back to trying to guess which is apt to be the lesser evil.
There is a very simple test for homosexuality.
If, as a man, you look at another man's hairy ass and say to yourself "Damn! I just gotta get me some of that!!" then you are most certainly gay.
If, on the other hand, you look at another man's hair ass and think to yourself "What the hell is that?! Put some dammed pants on you freak!" then you are most certainly not gay.
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