Researchers Find a 'Liberal Gene'

An anonymous reader writes "Liberals may owe their political outlook partly to their genetic make-up, according to new research from the University of California, San Diego, and Harvard University. Ideology is affected not just by social factors, but also by a dopamine receptor gene called DRD4. The study's authors say this is the first research to identify a specific gene that predisposes people to certain political views."

Comments

Re:And who gets to define "liberal?"

[operagost]

There is a direct correlation between welfare net and crime, the more effective the social welfare net the lower the crime rate.

You didn't provide any numbers, which hints at total bullshittery, but I'll bite. Because every nation has a different cultural makeup, comparisons can only be made within a nation and not between them. From when the "War on Poverty" was instituted by President Lyndon Johnson until 1991, total crime increased every year. It began to decrease in the 1990s, but then PLUMMETED after 1996 when welfare reform was enacted under President Clinton.

For the idiot right wingers who refuse to accept the blindingly obvious, for the numb nuts of the political spectrum simply compare Canada, to the US, to Mexico, of course right wingers will want to waffle on all kinds of bullshit rather than accept the obvious.

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/ad-hominem.html

Re:Oh, just great

[Coraon]

easy, he was fiction.