Cons vs. Libs: Different brain structure..

[Ben]

YouTube - Thom Hartmann: Evolution's end? Are Conservatives turning us into cavemen? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fkTHSeazsY)

[onmyknees]

YouTube - Thom Hartmann: Evolution's end? Are Conservatives turning us into cavemen? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fkTHSeazsY)


What a bunch of think tank bullshit that is Ben....Where do you get this shit from?

[Silcc69]

That was pretty funny.

[Ineeda SM]

YouTube - Thom Hartmann: Evolution's end? Are Conservatives turning us into cavemen? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fkTHSeazsY)

That was hilariously clever. I love it.

[robertlouis]

Here in the UK the Conservative and Liberal parties are working together as a coalition government.

I'll sit back while all your pointy little US heads explode after digesting that gem.

[trish]

BOO !!!
Okay, I guess I better apologize to all you conservatives. I'm sorry, I'm really sorry. It's just me. I didn't really believe you'd get as scared as you did.

[robertlouis]

Bear in mind that in relative terms both the Democrats and the Republicans are well to the right of all three main parties in the UK. Bless the NHS, the BBC and unarmed policemen.

I guess my slightly left of centre views over here would have the rightists on the forum yelling commie at me.....

[yodajazz]

I once attended a workshop, where a study of families was done, who had a parent in a war zone. It was found that they had much higher incidents of risky behaviors, often associated with ghetto residents. So the conclusion was that a stressful environment, was the main cause behind these behaviors. An example would be that teenaged girls, who saw life as violent, were more likely to get pregnant earlier. This makes sense from a survival perspective.

I read an article, that stated that liberals tend to have a more optimistic view of others, than conservative. I believe this to be true. This is also evidence that what the video speaker says is true. Being optimistic, means being less fearful, in general. I even see it in religion. How religious people view God, is often based what they think of people in general.

[Cuchulain]

God Bless Thom Hartmann. He always gets it right.

I've always felt there was something reptilian about CONs.

[Erika1487]

What a load of bullshit! If being conservative does that to the brain than being a bleeding heart liberal does this to the body!!!

[TJ347]

What a load of bullshit! If being conservative does that to the brain than being a bleeding heart liberal does this to the body!!!

Hilarity! :iagree:

[Silcc69]

What a load of bullshit! If being conservative does that to the brain than being a bleeding heart liberal does this to the body!!!

Oh the IRONY!

[nonnonnon]

can't we all talk about porno?

[Silcc69]

http://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/republican-brain-lo-res.jpg

[trish]

What a load of bullshit! If being conservative does that to the brain than being a bleeding heart liberal does this to the body!!!You got it backwards. It's the brain that determines the ideology, not the other way around. Other than that you understood the premise fairly well...for a conservative.

[Ben]

What a bunch of think tank bullshit that is Ben....Where do you get this shit from?

It was a study done by scientists at University College London in Britain. So, obviously, University College London isn't a Think Tank. Unless all universities are Think Tanks. But they could become, in essence, Think Tanks if they lose their independence and are financed solely by the private sector.
Corporate funds, of course, have a major influence on schools, on the curriculum that's taught. Negative, I might add. (I like what Naomi Klein said about Think Tanks: people paid to think by the makers of tanks -- ha! ha! It is true.)
As the study stated: "The amygdala, the region of the brain responsible for fear and other primitive emotions, were larger in people who identified themselves as conservatives." I don't see the problem with that. It is simply scientific inquiry. (I mean, why are so-called conservatives conservatives then? The conservative movement, actually, has nothing to do with conservatism. Conservatives, or what are called classical liberals, going back to the 18th. century, were against concentrated power. (Today real and proper conservatives would be adamantly against the highly concentrated power of corporations.) And also believed in morality -- and traditional values.
Neurologist Geraint Rees, author of the study and head of UCL’s Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, said, “It's very significant because it does suggest there is something about political attitudes that are either encoded in our brain structure through our experience or that our brain structure in some way determines or results in our political attitudes."
In a study published last October, researchers at Harvard and University of California San Diego found that a variant of the: "DRD4 gene predisposes people to being liberal, but only if they had active social lives as adolescents. The 'liberal gene' has also been linked to a desire to try new things, and other 'personality traits related to political liberalism.'"
It's fairly interesting. I mean, well, why does one become a so-called liberal or so-called conservative. Well, neurologists are offering up answers -- :)
And, last, but not least:
I doubt anyone on this site would label themselves a "social" conservative. And both political parties are reckless when it comes to fiscal conservatism. Reagan was an absolute joke when it came to fiscal conservatism. Clinton was, by many accounts, an actual fiscal conservative. His policies were harmful [think: NAFTA] to the vast majority of the population. But nonetheless a fiscal conservative. Clinton, like Obama, is a moderate Republican. And the last LIBERAL in the White was: Richard Nixon.
Since 1977 we've had either moderate or extreme Republicans. I don't think the nation can sustain a continued Republican (and yes Obama is a Republican, a moderate Republican) assault. We need an actual LIBERAL in the White House. Say, well, Dennis Kucinich -- :)

[Ben]

YouTube - Lewis Black on the difference between Democrats and Republicans (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqfDqDB8uzE)

[Ben]

YouTube - Conservative Brain Vs. Liberal Brain - Study (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIHRGUMr3Ak)

[Cuchulain]

http://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/republican-brain-lo-res.jpg

Perfect. I love it.

[Cuchulain]

since 1977 we've had either moderate or extreme republicans. I don't think the nation can sustain a continued republican (and yes obama is a republican, a moderate republican) assault. We need an actual liberal in the white house. Say, well, dennis kucinich -- :)

bingo! You da man!