The modern Democrat Party is based on the assumption that people are stupid. If one is unable to decide what to drink with lunch, unable to provide one's own health insurance/education/day care, unable to even provide one's own contraception, then one probably has nary a clue what is phrenology, nor any basis of comparison to the new "science" of why conservatives are just automatically wrong on every issue and thus there's no need to actually debate anything.
Dream on! Our system is set up for compromise.
Alot of these studies are just correlation. Like how butter is bad for you one day and good for you the next depending how you run the correlation and what factors you look at. Combined with Psychology which I feel is already a pretty weak science... meh. This will come back to bite the democrats as the equivalent of phrenology when people look back on it.
Poor people without disabilities that would prevent them from contributing something should not receive endless support money, but neither should they be cut off and left to starve.
Similarly, poverty can be and often is the result of bad decisions and the fault of the poor person or the poor person's parents. If we don't recognize this, then how can we hope to ever get that person out of poverty? If someone simply will not be responsible and contribute, then how do you propose getting them to be responsible and contribute without conceding that refusal to be responsible and contribute leads to poverty? If developing no useful, marketable skills while downloading yet another child process every year results in poverty - and it almost universally does - then pretending that poverty just somehow happened to them does that person a grave disservice.
Psychology IS a weak science and is easily manipulated and abused.
Our dear libs on this board need to take a hard look at history and see the dark side of how this 'soft science' has been abused - by the Soviets and their own precious progressives of the 20th century. The Soviets declared many who didn't toe the partly line to be mentally unstable and institutionalized them. The progressives of post WW1 turned many eastern Europeans away by means of tests that showed them to be intellectually inferior.
Our lib friends on here have set themselves up in a nice pretty little bubble that allows them to freely question the mental faculties of anyone that dares to disagree with them. Liberals are, in fact, the most insecure of people. They need these studies to help them validate themselves - pumping up their own sense of worth and superiority. Anyone with a psych minor in college could come up with one of these studies to demean either side in this futile political debate.
And anyone who dares question my opinion is only validating my opinion. See how easy that works?
The modern Democrat Party is based on the assumption that people are stupid. If one is unable to decide what to drink with lunch, unable to provide one's own health insurance/education/day care, unable to even provide one's own contraception, then one probably has nary a clue what is phrenology, nor any basis of comparison to the new "science" of why conservatives are just automatically wrong on every issue and thus there's no need to actually debate anything.
You missed a few...
Liberalism Caused By Defective Chromosome
By Dr. Richter DasMeerungeheuer on July 8, 2014
A recent study conducted by W.I.T. has determined that many of the behavioral traits typically ascribed to liberalism are caused by a hereditary chromosomal defect. The chromosomal abnormality, located on the seventeenth pair of autosome chromosomes, has a severe and profound impact on normal brain development and function. The new disease, Blacks Disorder, is named after Dr. Amanda Black, who first discovered the chromosomal replication abnormality and later headed the research project at W.I.T.’s applied genetics department examining this defect.
While doing population demographic and genetic research, Dr. Black noted that a high percentage of individuals who self-identified as possessing a “liberal” political ideology, within the genetically sequenced research group, seemed to possess the same hereditary autosomal defect. Specifically, when undergoing mitosis in the early critical junction of cell division a transcription error occurs that shortens one of the chromosome Q arms so that the total genes contained within it is reduced from its normal 1672 genes to 1670. Another three genes within the chromosome undergo minute transcription abnormalities which result in a specific mutation. These genetic omissions and errors cumulatively effect neural function in several identifiable and consistent ways.
One of the biggest changes involves the brains overproduction of the hormone Oxytocin. This overproduction leads to a increase in ethnocentric behavior and an increase in trust and empathy disassociated from sociological inputs. Ethnocentric behavior is characterized by judging another group or culture solely by the values and standards of ones own culture. Individuals with Blacks disease tend to be highly intolerant of viewpoints and ideas that do not conform to those of their self-identified group. It is also characteristic for individuals possessing this disorder to exhibit elevated signs of aggression and a propensity to attack when their group convictions are challenged. Sufferers of Blacks Disease are also prone to utilize emotional based thinking as opposed to rational thinking; very seldom being able to change their beliefs based on rational inputs and evidence. Their emotional attachment to their convictions and beliefs appear to overwhelm their ability to be objective. The aforementioned is coupled with a increase of trust and group bonding in the group they belong to. This results in those they consider to be “in their group” being fiercely protected even when they act in a injurious fashion toward the well being of the group as a whole. All of these symptoms are directly tied to the overabundance of Oxytocin present in those who suffer from this affliction.
The second major and identifiable changes relating to Blacks Disease involve parts of the brain involved in instinctual motivation and responsibility. Researchers noted that one of the transcription errors causes by Blacks Disease detrimentally effects function of the mesolimbic region of the brain, as well as effecting tertiary functions relating to learning in the hippocampus and medial temporal lobe. Cumulatively these detrimental abnormalities effect suffers of Blacks Disease ability to utilize reward anticipation functions. This leads to a breakdown of basic understanding within the brain to the connection between task and reward: the basis for neuro-functional motivation. This lack of effective processing of emotional motivation in response to task/reward scenarios has a negative impact on individual responsibility. Individuals with Blacks Disease are literally unable to understand the connection between task preformed and reward gained. This renders them largely unable to understand and function in a optimally responsible manner.
Researchers noted that even offspring of those raised by sufferers of Blacks Disease, who did not possess the chromosomal abnormality associated with, were still highly prone to engaging in the same type of nonfunctional behaviors. Researchers posit that learned behavioral patterns are the cause in individuals not effected by Blacks Disease. This offers the hope that early intervention and remediation therapy can be used to save those without the actual chromosomal abnormality from its effect. Full findings to be published in next quarters issue of The American Journal Of Human Genetics.
And anyone who dares question my opinion is only validating my opinion. See how easy that works?
Colbert refers to it as Truthiness, and he isn't talking about Liberals.
It's not about intelligence, but rather about how people think, about how they process information through an existing system of belief.
If you have an irrational hatred of women, you'll process information much like Nehalem.
If you believe deeply & emotionally that abortion is wrong, you'll process information like Texashiker.
If you think Sarah Palin is a hot number, you'll be inclined to give her more slack than she deserves.
So forth & so on. Where it gets difficult is dealing with people who won't examine their own assumptions, because they pose false arguments based on what is erroneous belief in the first place. Your third paragraph is just that.
And here's the "science" on LBD. :biggrin:
I missed them because they weren't found to be CBD infected. Stop deflecting.
edit - although I have to admit those pics you posted are absolutely hilarious.
Psychology IS a weak science and is easily manipulated and abused.
Our dear libs on this board need to take a hard look at history and see the dark side of how this 'soft science' has been abused - by the Soviets and their own precious progressives of the 20th century. The Soviets declared many who didn't toe the partly line to be mentally unstable and institutionalized them. The progressives of post WW1 turned many eastern Europeans away by means of tests that showed them to be intellectually inferior.
Our lib friends on here have set themselves up in a nice pretty little bubble that allows them to freely question the mental faculties of anyone that dares to disagree with them. Liberals are, in fact, the most insecure of people. They need these studies to help them validate themselves - pumping up their own sense of worth and superiority. Anyone with a psych minor in college could come up with one of these studies to demean either side in this futile political debate.
And anyone who dares question my opinion is only validating my opinion. See how easy that works?
And here's the "science" on LBD. :biggrin:
Case in point! Too funny!I notice you didn't offer a link.
People all across the political spectrum can make the same kind of mistakes. OTOH, there's really only one side of it with a massive propaganda machine exploiting that tendency, and it's not Libs.
Can I hear it for Birtherism? Fast & furious? Ben-fucking-ghazi? IRS witch hunt? Mewling over the technicalities of getting Bowe Bergdahl released? The color of Obama's suit?
Or do we want to go a little deeper, to FEMA camps, Sharia Law, War on Christians? How about the instigators & winners of top down class warfare whining about being "victims" of class warfare?
http://www.alternet.org/media/most-depressing-discovery-about-brain-ever
It is also characteristic for individuals possessing this disorder to exhibit elevated signs of aggression and a propensity to attack when their group convictions are challenged. Sufferers of Blacks Disease are also prone to utilize emotional based thinking as opposed to rational thinking; very seldom being able to change their beliefs based on rational inputs and evidence. Their emotional attachment to their convictions and beliefs appear to overwhelm their ability to be objective.
Next thing you know he'll want a link to the actual study!