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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dracin72 who wrote (9298)	2/2/2017 6:52:10 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 363139

I've spent 50 years studiously examining the left and right. That has been the thing that has interested me more than almost anything else. It is one of the main reasons I decided to major in psychology. Not that that ever helped me understand it any better. What I noticed in my 20s when I was very politically active and reading lots of books to try and understand the meaning of life :)>, I noticed that conservatives who I pretty much always have disagreed with on everything, nevertheless had intellectual acumen. So I couldn't figure out how they could be smart and yet be so wrong about so many things. 50 years later, I'm still struggling with it. But I've learned some things about it. Number one, the left and right are fundamentally different. And my number one pet peeve are people who say there's no difference between the two parties when the difference is as wide as the Grand Canyon. And there's a lot of data to back up my contentions. The two main areas of data I would use would be to look at who supported what issues over the last hundred years, and the types of people that we find on the left and the right. As well there is a deductive logic that I think I can apply successfully. Let's start with the deductive logic first. What does conservative mean, it means to conserve the culture and society. Except that we know that yesterday, generally speaking is more primitive than today i.e. the conservatives want to hang on to the primitive ideas of the past and the liberals want to move forward into the future. Then look at the issues (generally speaking): the left fought for integration, the right fought for segregation. The left fights for pro-choice and the right fights for pro-life. The left has always been the most environmentally concerned and the right doesn't seem to care much at all. The left believes in gay marriage and the right doesn't. The left would do away with the death penalty and the right supports it. I could go on and on. And then there are the issues most of which have been alluded to above. But also what kind of people do we find on the left and the right. Only 6% of scientists are Republican, 51% are professed liberals and 80% lean Democratic. One has to ask why that is although the answer is obvious. How can a scientist be a conservative when they are still denying things like evolution and global warming? Lastly, when you talk about the far left you're talking about guys like Noam Chomsky, Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein, Mark Twain and most of the top intellectuals in history. On the right, you're talking about guys like Rush Limbaugh, Savage and Banyan, Glenn Beck and Franklin Graham. Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly. Liars and tricksters all. In my opinion.