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To: Rarebird who wrote (130928)	2/13/2013 7:39:59 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) of 149317

I had long thought that the arguments between people like you and I stemmed from differing economic visions. Recently a psychology prof shed new light from another perspective. Jonathan Haidt at NYU conducted extensive interviews and distributed questionnaires to a lot of people all across the political spectrum. He extensively analyzed the data and came to some illuminating conclusions, published in THE RIGHTEOUS MIND -- (I understand he was a liberal, but has begun recovery). He found that “liberals” are motivated by the “care” factor. They are convinced their moral intuitions can be politically exercised toward achieving certain goals and are largely immune to even examining the rock solid evidence contravening their cherished illusions. In the extreme (you) it would seem to me this defect distills to psychosis. At the other end he concluded that libertarians tend to amass knowledge, then use analytic tools to reach their conclusions. They understand the processes that lead to fulfillment of your desires. If you could clear your receptors and do some serious study you might learn why those in the know so fear and loathe the mentality mislabeled as progressive or liberal. That disease constitutes a threat to my children, and theirs, and theirs. And yours. It’s interesting you should call me a right wing greedy fascist pig (well, I am right wing, a pig maybe). So many of your positions are joined at the hip with those of Benito and Adolph, and no one has ever explained the similarities to you. The ills affecting America largely stem from deluded nincompoops that so infest our academia. In the soft subjects they churn out people with no exposure to the lessons of history. Words don’t kill, but bad ideas lead to lousy results and sometimes slaughter. I’m done intruding here. If you feel the need to further impugn my character or assail my intelligence I suggest a PM.

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