This Snow today - Up to a FOOT in Some Places

[SeniorChief_Polock]

Conservatives in every society, at every moment in history are the equivalent of the people on the shore screaming at Columbus, 'you're going to sail off the end of the Earth, what makes you think YOU know better'?

"I think the most important question facing humanity is, ‘Is the universe a friendly place?’ This is the first and most basic question all people must answer for themselves. "For if we decide that the universe is an unfriendly place, then we will use our technology, our scientific discoveries and our natural resources to achieve safety and power by creating bigger walls to keep out the unfriendliness and bigger weapons to destroy all that which is unfriendly and I believe that we are getting to a place where technology is powerful enough that we may either completely isolate or destroy ourselves as well in this process. - Albert Einstein -

Bigger wall? Keep out the unfriendliness? The conservative mind is hard-wired to operate on fear.

That's the stupidest thing I've seen here in a while. Conservativism is based on a look before you leap philosophy. Is it fear that governs the looking before leaping? Or the reality that you may go over the cliff. Liberals are driven by their emotions like most children, they simply can't or won't grow up. If they don't get what they want unopposed then mommy and daddy are meanies and don't love them.

One of the current false memes that conservatives LOVE to hold in their hands like a precious little bird, that they rely on logic and others on emotion. This is the brainwashing accomplished by Faux News and con-talk-radio. They push this falsehood over and over and over.

Fear is an emotion, and conservative's minds operate on the fear model. Google it.

All humans have fear, it is just in the people that tend towards a conservative bent this emotion is at the fore. It prevents them from moving forward until almost all of the danger has been either dispelled or eliminated. It also is why conservatives are afraid of 'other' and 'change'. The unknown causes fear in almost all humans, but again it is in the fore for people of a conservative bent. So even when the danger is minimal or even absent the conservative leaning mind is overly cautious. And in say the jungle this comes in handy for survival. When there are hundreds of things in your immediate environment that might kill you right now then being overly cautious is an advantageous trait. Seeing a new cave and not walking straight in, a new plant and not tasting or eating it. Coming across a clearing in the jungle and being hesitant before crossing in the open. When there are many immediate mortal threats then being ultra-conservative helps you survive.

But once removed from that most dangerous environment this ultra-conservative mindset is a hindrance. It makes you timid even in situations where there is very low or no danger. The outright primal fear exhibited towards immigrants is an example of this. Is some fear warranted in lieu of terrorist attacks around the world, of course. We should be slow and deliberate in screening people that want to come here. That is rational. The irrational and ultra-conservative overly fearful reaction is 'we have to close our borders and let no one in'. A mental and physical way of digging a moat around your tribe and isolating yourself from the scary world.

If you didn't read this far I don't blame you, long posts make me not read as well. Now and then a thought needs to be in black and white though. And there are many books written on this very subject that explain it far better than I do.

Look jackass. In the 1970s the fear from leftists was global cooling. We were going to be covered in ice in 20 years. That didn't happen, so it changed to global warming. What's it called now? Climate change! LOL. Quick with the bullshit, already. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, I'd be a liberal voter. But I'm not. I didn't buy into the bullshit in the 70s.

These idiots can't even elect a competent President (i.e. Obama, Clinton, LBJ) - you expect them to predict weather accurately?