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Researchers Claim To Be Able To Determine Political Leaning By How Messy You Are
According to a study to be published in The Journal of Political Psychology, you can tell someone's political affiliation by looking at the condition of their offices and bedrooms. Conservatives tend to be neat and liberals love a mess. Researchers found that the bedrooms and offices of liberals tend to be colorful and full of books about travel, ethnicity, feminism and music, along with music CDs covering folk, classic and modern rock, as well as art supplies, movie tickets and travel memorabilia. Their conservative contemporaries, on the other hand, tend to surround themselves with calendars, postage stamps, laundry baskets, irons and sewing materials. Their bedrooms and offices are well lit and decorated with sports paraphernalia and flags — especially American ones. Sam Gosling, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, says these room cues are "behavioral residue." The findings are just the latest in a series of recent attempts to unearth politics in personality, the brain and DNA. I, for one, support a woman's right to clean.
I would love to hear you definition about liberal.
But libertarianism is a branch of the liberal thought from the enlightenment era.
Actually libertarianism just a word used by anarchist to deflect censorship, but i digress, Ayn Rand mumbo jumbo is a form of laizzis faire liberalism.
My -1 Troll is actually a +1 funny. And my -1 flame is actually a +1 insightfull.
Yes.. you're very smart. You have a firm grasp situations and everyone likes you.
Actually, the US, a liberal will determine that since you were driving a new SUV that you must not care about the environment or poor people or education or world peace or health care or racism or women's rights, etc, etc. The liberal will take down your license plate number, find out were you live, create a community activist organization that promotes the above listed ideals while ensuring that you are associated with being against the ideals without ever considering facts. The liberal will encourage the passage of repressive laws that result in more government regulations to ensure that you never have a chance to get lost in your SUV because the law won't allow it.
Say's Obama to Joe the plumber "I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody." ...that's a liberal... if you earn it the government will spread it...as in bend over and spread.