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Understanding the Contemporary Republican Party: Authoritarians Have Taken Control
Part One in a Three-Part Series
By JOHN W. DEAN
Wednesday, Sep. 05, 2007
This is the first in a three- part series of columns in which FindLaw columnist John Dean discusses his most recent book, Conservatives Without Conscience. - Ed.
wow, what a shock, liberals doing studies that say conservative are bad
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In a study that ponders the similarities between former President Ronald Reagan, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Rush Limbaugh, four American university researchers say they now have a better understanding of what makes political conservatives tick.
Underlying psychological motivations that mark conservatives are "fear and aggression, dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity; uncertainty avoidance; need for cognitive closure; and terror management," the researchers wrote in an article, "Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition," recently published in the American Psychological Association's Psychological Bulletin.
I just had to comment on this one. See the highlighted portion above. Doesn't that sort of...well...tend to throw the objectivity of the whole thing into the crapper? It would be rather like finding a "study" that starts out with the premise that goes something like this: "In a study that ponders the similarities between former President Bill Clinton, Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-Tung and Al Franken, four Heritage Foundation researchers say they now have a better understanding of what makes political liberals tick".
wow, what a shock, liberals doing studies that say conservative are bad
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Wow, what a shock. An incomplete, half ass puctuated sentence from a nearly illiterate conservative. You're only going to help the other side in this debate about conservative intellect. Really, you should take one for the team and sit this one out.
Stalin, Mao LIBERALS??? WOW...
How do you have 3 without infringing on 2? That's wholly contradictory. That's where these newer so called conservatives were led astray. The only thing matters is to protect the government from infringing on rights of people and to follow the Constitution word for word.
Spoken like a Ron Paul Libertarian.
Indeed. However, many Libertarians (I hazard to guess) don't agree with Ron Paul on this issue. I would also suggest that there are certain legitimate functions of government supported by the Constitution (and which, therefore, *should* be supported by Libertarians) and among those legitimate functions are national defense and national security.
fuck off asshole
Understanding the Contemporary Republican Party: Authoritarians Have Taken Control
Part One in a Three-Part Series
By JOHN W. DEAN
Wednesday, Sep. 05, 2007
This is the first in a three- part series of columns in which FindLaw columnist John Dean discusses his most recent book, Conservatives Without Conscience. - Ed.
This is hysterical! Would that the "authoritarian" conservative types COULD take control of the Republican party. What we currently have, instead, is a Republican party intent on seeming more like the Democrat party; intent on adopting absurd Democrat ideas (such as global warming) as if they are valid; intent on being "liked" by everyone, but finding that there is nothing a non-liberal can do to be liked by liberals other than to simply give in and join them. I keep hoping that some good, strong, pure conservatives will once again hold sway in that party. At that point, I might be able to vote Republican again because I actually believe in what the party stands for, rather than because I feel it is just barely the lesser of two evils.
Stalin, Mao LIBERALS??? WOW...
I kinda thought it might come as a surprise to you. You can thank me in private for contributing thusly to your education.
wow, what a shock, liberals doing studies that say conservative are bad
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Wow, what a shock. An incomplete, half ass puctuated sentence from a nearly illiterate conservative. You're only going to help the other side in this debate about conservative intellect. Really, you should take one for the team and sit this one out.![]()
fuck off asshole
Wow, almost tempted to figure out what happened since my last post. Then decided, nah, if important it will become clear.
and we care about you obsession about your school chums? What the f?My guess would be I would get 95% correct guessing on which of my elementary school chums are arch conservatives, and which arch liberals, today.
And that's without my having seen or heard from any of them in about 40 years, too.
Stalin, Mao LIBERALS??? WOW...
I kinda thought it might come as a surprise to you. You can thank me in private for contributing thusly to your education.
Authoritarian Republicans: Understanding the Personality Type
While not all conservatives are authoritarians, all highly authoritarian personalities are political conservatives.
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20070905.html
I guess this "concept" falls into the right wing dogma syndrome...
You're a "Tory", you just don't know it...LOL
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Conservatism is based on latitude, longitude and date of birth.
Me
Conservatives born in Germany in the 1920's supported Hitler
Conservatives born in Russia in the 1930's supported Stalin
Conservatives born in America in the 1750's supported King George III
I like that DiveCon ... pondering saving the link for future references.
Grammar police ... well ... suck ... because I hate ... grammar. We don't talk like that IRL, shy should we post like that here. Seriously. As for the topic, even I can see it's biased, and I am *gasp* middle of the road, in other words, not a Republican supporter. The study is clearly not complete.
I like that DiveCon ... pondering saving the link for future references.
Grammar police ... well ... suck ... because I hate ... grammar. We don't talk like that IRL, shy should we post like that here. Seriously. As for the topic, even I can see it's biased, and I am *gasp* middle of the road, in other words, not a Republican supporter. The study is clearly not complete.
Uh.....duh......in real life we have pitch and inflextion. I can't hear you in here so you have to actually put a question mark, exclamation, etc. if you intend to communicate your thoughts effectively.
I guess code doesn't have any little rules like that huh ? Symbols and such don't really matter, right ? You just leave those out because you don't talk like that ?
I like that DiveCon ... pondering saving the link for future references.
Grammar police ... well ... suck ... because I hate ... grammar. We don't talk like that IRL, shy should we post like that here. Seriously. As for the topic, even I can see it's biased, and I am *gasp* middle of the road, in other words, not a Republican supporter. The study is clearly not complete.
Uh.....duh......in real life we have pitch and inflextion. I can't hear you in here so you have to actually put a question mark, exclamation, etc. if you intend to communicate your thoughts effectively.
I guess code doesn't have any little rules like that huh ? Symbols and such don't really matter, right ? You just leave those out because you don't talk like that ?
Actually ... not really, you make your own if you know what you're doing as a coder ... like accents ... sentence patterns ... grammar ...