Here’s a link to yet another story about yet another article about how conservatives and liberals are different, not just because conservatives are soulless shells of human beings, facades of humanity, narrow minded, bigoted, greedy, anti-intellectual troglodytes and liberals are generally fairly agreeable people although pretty flaky sometimes, but because there are specific differences within our brains, for instance, conservatives tend to have a larger amygdala, the section that’s all about fight or flight, and liberals brains are better at actually thinking about stuff.
Not surprisingly, this makes liberals more neurotic. Ignorance being bliss, the conservatives go through life dumb and happy. There could be something to that. I still wouldn’t trade places with them.
Scientists have become pretty good at examining the brain with their fancy dyes and microscopic implants and wires attached to people’s heads. They look at the screen and see different areas light up, I think you can actually see images of specific thoughts. I saw that on House once, anyway, and I’m sure it’s coming. But, I was fairly unimpressed with this particular study. We know that conservatives and liberals think differently. Conservatives think like conservatives and liberals think like liberals. That’s why they call them that.
The study also tried to claim that one’s political tendencies are hereditary, because they do seem to run in families. Well, duh. That doesn’t prove heredity, there’s still the old heredity v. environment thing to worry about, nature v. nurture. Of course, most people grow up accepting their parents’ political belief system. If you grow up as a Baptist, you are likely to stay a Baptist your whole life. If you grow up in Wisconsin, you will probably always support the Packers.
So, I don’t really think it’s hereditary, no. Conservatives are crazy, though.
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I tend to agree. Although there are exceptions, I suppose.
I see a number of aspects differently:
A. It’s not a binary – yes / no – proposition. There are an infinite number of shades of grey. Do -all- conservatives conform to one definition? All liberals? Of course not. In fact, part of the problem with everyone but conservatives – who seem to adhere more tightly to groupthink – is that there are so many different trains of thought that it’s like herding cats.
B. My parents were Roman Catholic and that was the environment in which I was reared. I am no longer RC. I don’t particularly subscribe to any brand of religion, now. I’m also not a homer for the local sports teams. I rooted for the Bills when they made the Super Bowl, but they’re not my team, usually. Incidentally, the Bills share the dubious distinction with my beloved Vikings of having played in four SBs and lost. Bigger point: we don’t have to follow the family tradition or go with the local flow. We can be our own dogs.
C. Conservatives are clearly different. They would be the Neanderthals of today. Tribal, small minded, closed minded, and hostile – so long as it’s someone else doing the actual fighting. The biggest difference, I’d say, is that conservatives don’t think: they react. I don’t believe they’ve developed the ability to stand back, assess a situation from all sides, and cone up with a reasonable solution. They’re like children: they want a cookie and you’d better damned well give it to them. It doesn’t matter if they have to make everyone else miserable: they want their fucking cookie.
We can’t overlook the infinite shades of gray. But, we tend to categorize people anyway.