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Brain Differences In Liberals and Conservatives
i_like_spam writes "Scientists from NYU and UCLA report in Nature Neuroscience that the brains of Democrats and Republicans process information differently. This new study finds that the differences are apparent even when the brain processes common information, not just political topics. From the study, liberals were more likely to be accurate and showed more brain activity in the region associated with analyzing conflicts. A researcher not affiliated with the study stated, liberals 'could be expected to more readily accept new social, scientific or religious ideas.' Moreover, 'the results could explain why President Bush demonstrated a single-minded commitment to the Iraq war and why some people perceived Sen. John F. Kerry... as a flip-flopper.'"
You know, its funny, but liberals are only open minded to their own ideas, just as much as conservatives are, and there's not a damn bit of difference between the two on that score.
It's just that liberals are more likely to be religious fruitcakes when it comes to their own "religion" of PC whereas conservatives are more likely to be cheating on theirs. Whose more screwed up in the head, the enviro-liberal who really does recycle the potato skins into blankets for baby, or a conservative that says fags suck and then, ya find out that he's a fag that does.
This is my sig.
...asking Philip Morris to do a study on the health effects of smoking.
Seriously, there is a major academic freedom crisis on campuses across the country. If you aren't a 100% Marxist, they laugh at you, ruin you, humiliate you, and censor your work. I've been there. I know.
Yes, there are plenty of sheepish conservatives. There are plenty of sheepish liberals, too. Remember the MTV sheep and "B.J." Clinton in the 1990s? I'm sure there are plenty of conservatives who feel that wars for spreading democracy are justified. Despite the fact the Bush and his cronies are the furthest thing from "conservative" since FDR.
Personally, I'm an anarcho-capitalist, meaning that I want to hold the government accountable by allowing multiple competing governments. I'm conservative in that I favor smaller government and traditional Judeo-Christian values, yet I am liberal in that I favor radical political change and allowing people to make their own decisions about their lives and their values. Am I a sheep, or am I open to new ideas? Or am I just my own person?
Just my two cents.