Somebody on my Facebook posted this- and it bears repeating- conservatives and liberals are different. There's a reason that crazy old conservative uncle is all gloom and doom and no fun- he's freaking negative- but he was born that way:
motherjones.com
Another reason to champion Calexit. We really need a divorce from these people. Who wants to live with people still looking for the saber-toothed cat that's going to get them?
"There is by now evidence from a variety of laboratories around the world using a variety of methodological techniques leading to the virtually inescapable conclusion that the cognitive-motivational styles of leftists and rightists are quite different. This research consistently finds that conservatism is positively associated with heightened epistemic concerns for order, structure, closure, certainty, consistency, simplicity, and familiarity, as well as existential concerns such as perceptions of danger, sensitivity to threat, and death anxiety. [Italics added]"
So these are people in search of a supreme leader/papa. They're afraid of death, sensitive to fear, like things simple and consistent, and they need structure. Basically, they're toddlers, apparently. |
