Imagine taking a sip from your drink, only to realize that it belongs to a stranger. Grossed out? If so, then you may be a conservative thinker.
High “disgust sensitivity,” or a tendency to react strongly to things you think are gross, can predict political conservatism, researchers say. Less turned off? That could indicate more liberal views.
Two recent studies link disgust sensitivity with conservative attitudes on gay marriage and abortion. In one, 181 participants were tested for how they’d react to unpleasant situations, such as finding an unflushed toilet in a public restroom. Then they were asked about their political leanings. Researchers found a correlation between being easily disgusted and politically conservative.
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Because disgust is a reaction to perceived impurity, he says, it might inform conservative values such as opposing homosexuality, gay marriage and abortion.
Right and Left Wingnuts. The main difference is that they screw up in different ways. It’s all in how you spin them. One way they tighten up, and the other way they come off their grooves. But when you try and cross thread them, then things are really screwed.
By this logic, ever woman I have ever met would be a conservative. This is bunk.
What happens if you’re a liberal conservative?
#43. Then you are a dying breed, or you’re voice is being drowned out by the resurgent non-liberal conservatism of the last few decades. Either way you are, unfortunately, becoming irrelevant in U.S. politics today.
Conservatism used to mean, “Don’t interfere with my life unless I am harming someone else”. These days it means “Don’t interfere with my life, but please interfere with the lives of those people I don’t approve of”.
Non-liberal lefties want to interfere too, but at least they are consistent and upfront about wanting to interfere, while the new authoritarian conservatives want to have it both ways, cloaking themselves in the flag of liberty, claiming liberty for themselves and none for others they dissaprove of.
Then again, this is nothing new, some of early settlers fled Europe for “religious liberty” but when they got to North America didn’t apply that to anybody who disagreed with their religion, and we’re talking about expulsion, imprisonment and death.
So gays are disgusting?
No gag reflex at all? You can date Bill Clinton!
I have been reading the ideas of Jon Haidt and he thinks that conservatives and liberals have slightly different morals. Both place great value on care and fairness but conservatives also value things like tradition and purity.
“This is BS. So many conservative politicians, priests, etc have been outed as gay, pedophiles, politicians and other ‘disgusting’ things for this to be true.”
Maybe they have been “outed” as some of these things like homosexuality are considered disgusting and are kept hidden but are also things that are not chosen.
#3 If Haidt is correct in his ideas, then you are mistaken. Liberals are not amoral, they only have narrower moral focus. According to Haidt, conservatives should be able to understand this as they share these morals with liberals but liberals might have difficulties understanding those conservative morals they do not share.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Haidt
#1 Sorry dude. They guy posting hates everybody that doesn’t go around screaming, “I want to be gay! Being gay is wonderful!”
Actually it means you are gender confused and like nearly always being confused means the confused person has problems.
Since all of us have our own problems and this isn’t a help group for gender confused people we just wish the dude would stick a red wood in it.
Very few if any of the other posters are interested in this topic any more than they want to hear about Uncle Ethbert’s hemorrhoids for the 97th time.
[quote]Uncle Dave said, on December 18th, 2009 at 7:31 am
#1: You have no reading comprehension ability.
First, we don’t hate gays, etc. We hate those who hate them.[/quote]
So is this a “royal we” U.D.? Or do you speak for the entire blog?
Disapproving of something is hating?
Sometimes it’s really that simple, isn’t it? I feel a little stupid for not thinking of this myself/earlier, though.