Conservatism is a mental disorder

[dbackjon]

I see your worldnutsdaily, and raise you the Guardian:

study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity".
As if that was not enough to get Republican blood boiling, the report's four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and the rightwing talkshow host, Rush Limbaugh, arguing they all suffered from the same affliction.

All of them "preached a return to an idealised past and condoned inequality".

Republicans are demanding to know why the psychologists behind the report, Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition, received $1.2m in public funds for their research from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

The authors also peer into the psyche of President George Bush, who turns out to be a textbook case. The telltale signs are his preference for moral certainty and frequently expressed dislike of nuance.

"This intolerance of ambiguity can lead people to cling to the familiar, to arrive at premature conclusions, and to impose simplistic cliches and stereotypes," the authors argue in the Psychological Bulletin.

One of the psychologists behind the study, Jack Glaser, said the aversion to shades of grey and the need for "closure" could explain the fact that the Bush administration ignored intelligence that contradicted its beliefs about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/aug/13/usa.redbox

[AZGrizFan]

What's your point?

[dbackjon]

What's your point?

None - just a counter point to Coastal's thread

[AZGrizFan]

What's your point?

None - just a counter point to Coastal's thread

That's funny. I saw YOUR'S first....

Difference is, Coastal's is right.

[dbackjon]

None - just a counter point to Coastal's thread

That's funny. I saw YOUR'S first....

Difference is, Coastal's is right.

Nuh-huh

[AZGrizFan]

That's funny. I saw YOUR'S first....

Difference is, Coastal's is right.

Nuh-huh

yeah huh.

[dbackjon]

oh yeah??

[AZGrizFan]

YEAH!

[AZGrizFan]

Booby Head!!!

[dbackjon]

poopy diaper head

[Col Hogan]

I just love the enlightened political discussion of the topics impacting our lives.....

[AZGrizFan]

I just love the enlightened political discussion of the topics impacting our lives.....

You mama wears army pants!

[Col Hogan]

I just love the enlightened political discussion of the topics impacting our lives.....

You mama wears army pants!

Actually, she got them from my dad...and they're NAVY pants...with all 13 buttons intact...

[AZGrizFan]

You mama wears army pants!

Actually, she got them from my dad...and they're NAVY pants...with all 13 buttons intact...

Well then, I feel sorry for your Dad.

You know why there's 13 buttons, don't you?






Gives the girls 13 chances to say "No".

That's why my Service Dress Blues had the buttons converted to Velcro.

[Ibanez]

13 Original colonies?

[travelinman67]

I see your worldnutsdaily, and raise you the Guardian:

study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity".
As if that was not enough to get Republican blood boiling, the report's four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and the rightwing talkshow host, Rush Limbaugh, arguing they all suffered from the same affliction.

All of them "preached a return to an idealised past and condoned inequality".

Republicans are demanding to know why the psychologists behind the report, Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition, received $1.2m in public funds for their research from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

The authors also peer into the psyche of President George Bush, who turns out to be a textbook case. The telltale signs are his preference for moral certainty and frequently expressed dislike of nuance.

"This intolerance of ambiguity can lead people to cling to the familiar, to arrive at premature conclusions, and to impose simplistic cliches and stereotypes," the authors argue in the Psychological Bulletin.

One of the psychologists behind the study, Jack Glaser, said the aversion to shades of grey and the need for "closure" could explain the fact that the Bush administration ignored intelligence that contradicted its beliefs about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/aug/13/usa.redbox

What in the hell does, "...frequently expressed dislike of nuance." mean?

Do they mean an overt public remark? A "disapproving" facial expression? Or merely an interpreted change in body language?

And why a study to attack our President and, ultimately, our great country. Whose idea was it to waste our hard earned tax dollars to publish yet another Anti-American, hate piece?

And who are these people making this assertion? Clinical Psychologists? (Read, "Socialworkers" lacking people skills.) What are their motives? Self-gain? (Pshaaawww!!!)

Many questions, all with the same answer: A liberal attack on our great country and the decent, God-fearing conservatives in our land.







(....yes, it's satire)