ionesco,
re: << Maybe liberals prioritize risk better- I don't know. The studies I saw just examined the fixation of the red staters (and likely Bush voters) on fear. It's interesting- the psychology behind voter affiliation, or at least I find it interesting.>>
IMO, it is only logical that liberals "fear" less than conservatives. For the libs, look ahead, into the unknown, into new territory, while conservatives are reluctant, probably, out of fear to try the new. They like the known, the familiar, the status quo, etc. It is comforting to them. That's why they, the conservatives, like a "big brother" figure "looking out" for them.. And that goes for all societies.
For the conservatives in the former USSR were the staunchest of the old party liners. The staunchest in the most fundamentalist religious Muslim societies are known as conservatives. The conservatives when our country was founded were the Tories.. And so it goes as the political definition is:
"tending to preserve established traditions or institutions and to resist or oppose any changes in these.."
So it takes courage to oppose the conservative lineage but in the long run ALL embrace it.. And then the ones that opposed it become "conservative" to the "new" and people LIKE us are moving on to improve.. <g>..
It is all so dynamic and so easy to understand, for an open liberal mind, that is.. :)
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