Do you believe this?

[Sees]

 

[Augustus]

Contains a grain of truth, but overwhelmingly smug, self-satisfied, over-simplistic and pretty ignorant.

If there was one from a conservative perspective I imagine I would have the same attitude towards it.

 

[Terese]

Liberals and conservatives have positives and negatives. Both can get extreme. Like liberals find that if you don't like gays you are homophobic and evil and hound on him/her, even though its just the person's opinion. And conservatives can value tradition to the point where making any changes to a system etc is in no way tolerated.

 

[Rival]

No.

 

[Laika]

In private, I occassionaly use "liberal" as a term of abuse, mostly as hypocritical and unprincipled tolerance so that it allows alot in the right-hand column to continue unnoticed as "freedom".

But that's probably because I've been reading Mao Tse Tung's "Combat Liberalism" a little too much.

 

[Rick O'Shez]

Unfortunately we don't have liberals in UK politics any more.

 

[Sees]

Unfortunately we don't have liberals in UK politics any more.

Did you guys ship them all over here?

 

[Rick O'Shez]

Did you guys ship them all over here?

No, I think they have all died of shame.

 

[picnic]

Contains a grain of truth, but overwhelmingly smug, self-satisfied, over-simplistic and pretty ignorant.

It can't be ignorant, because that would make it conservative according to item #11 "conservative promotes ignorance"

 

[Valjean]

Some of the comparisons don't quite follow, and the chart does strike me as propaganda, but this doesn't change the fact that there are innate, organic differences in liberal vs conservative brains (just google "liberal v conservative brain"). There have been dozens of psychological and imaging studies supporting this.

Liberals and conservatives use different cognitive processes and different moral reasoning. Their brains are anatomically and functionally different. Several imaging (MRI) studies have been able to pretty reliably predict a subject's political party from imaging alone.

 

[Debater Slayer]

Way too simplistic and partisan for my liking. Furthermore, I have to give it to the conservatives that they aren't as blinded by political correctness as many liberals. For example, so many liberals would jump on you if you dared to raise concerns about the problematic aspects of Islam or lax immigration policies, but, while I may not agree with them on everything, conservatives are mostly able to tackle these issues head-on.

 

[Revoltingest]

Unlike the subjective partisan driven chart in the OP, here are the
real differences between libs & cons.....or rather, Dems & Pubs.....

 

[Revoltingest]

Btw, the above is completely factual because I found it on the internet.

Interesting.....
Pubs prefer the progressive Modern Family & the science geeky Big Bang Theory.
Dems prefer the vigilante serial killer Dexter & the Kardashian self obsessionfest.

Since I'm an outsider, I can pick a couple from column A & few from column B......
Modern Family, Dexter, Breaking Bad, 30 Rock

 

[Valjean]

What? Do I have to give up The Mentalist?

 

[Sees]

Some of the comparisons don't quite follow, and the chart does strike me as propaganda, but this doesn't change the fact that there are innate, organic differences in liberal vs conservative brains (just google "liberal v conservative brain"). There have been dozens of psychological and imaging studies supporting this.

Liberals and conservatives use different cognitive processes and different moral reasoning. Their brains are anatomically and functionally different. Several imaging (MRI) studies have been able to pretty reliably predict a subject's political party from imaging alone.

Sounds sketchy to me...

 

[Revoltingest]

What? Do I have to give up The Mentalist?

So you can make time to watch the Kardashians, of course!

 

[Rick O'Shez]

What? Do I have to give up The Mentalist?

Yes, you have to start watching Dexter.

 

[Aupmanyav]

I voted mostly because I have a diference on the last item 'Believe Humans are Good'. I do not think they are that good. Of course, with proper training they can turn out to be good (Samskaras - Family training, education, teaching of civics, the right kind of religious education - monotheism many a times creates problems).

 

[Valjean]

Just google some of the studies, Sees. This is established psychology.

 

[Sees]

Just google some of the studies, Sees. This is established psychology.

I tried...the first few I've checked seem like horse-pucky, to put gently.

What is a good source for it?