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GoneFishin
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It's A Fact........
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9/28/2012 1:21:53 PM
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The Wing Nuts on the Right conveniently forget that the Founding Fathers were liberals.
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lakngulf
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It's A Fact........
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9/28/2012 2:15:29 PM
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If true, then that would mean there were once some level headed liberals. When did the road turn?
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water_watcher
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It's A Fact........
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9/28/2012 4:13:15 PM
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They were liberals before liberals lost their way and are now socialists.
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HubCap
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It's A Fact........
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9/28/2012 5:14:38 PM
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Brain structure differs in liberals, conservatives: study
(AFP) – Apr 7, 2011
WASHINGTON — Everyone knows that liberals and conservatives butt heads when it comes to world views, but scientists have now shown that their brains are actually built differently.
Liberals have more gray matter in a part of the brain associated with understanding complexity, while the conservative brain is bigger in the section related to processing fear, said the study on Thursday in Current Biology.
"We found that greater liberalism was associated with increased gray matter volume in the anterior cingulate cortex, whereas greater conservatism was associated with increased volume of the right amygdala," the study said.
Other research has shown greater brain activity in those areas, according to which political views a person holds, but this is the first study to show a physical difference in size in the same regions.
"Previously, some psychological traits were known to be predictive of an individual's political orientation," said Ryota Kanai of the University College London, where the research took place.
"Our study now links such personality traits with specific brain structure."
The study was based on 90 "healthy young adults" who reported their political views on a scale of one to five from very liberal to very conservative, then agreed to have their brains scanned.
People with a large amygdala are "more sensitive to disgust" and tend to "respond to threatening situations with more aggression than do liberals and are more sensitive to threatening facial expressions," the study said.
Liberals are linked to larger anterior cingulate cortexes, a region that "monitor(s) uncertainty and conflicts," it said.
"Thus, it is conceivable that individuals with a larger ACC have a higher capacity to tolerate uncertainty and conflicts, allowing them to accept more liberal views."
It remains unclear whether the structural differences cause the divergence in political views, or are the effect of them.
But the central issue in determining political views appears to revolve around fear and how it affects a person.
"Our findings are consistent with the proposal that political orientation is associated with psychological processes for managing fear and uncertainty," the study said.
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MartiniMan
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According to the old definition of liberalism
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9/28/2012 10:35:21 PM
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conservatives are liberal and liberals are socialists or collectivists or big government types, at least in current parlance. You and the founding fathers have almost nothing in common in terms of the belief of the proper role, scope and intrusiveness of the federal government. The Federalist Papers are rife with a veritable multitude of examples of them abhorring almost everything you believe.
But having said all that, in their day they would have been described as liberal as would I have been and proudly so. That modern day liberalism has no resemblance says more about the current day adherents than it does anything about the Founding Fathers. But today those that continue to embrace the core beliefs of the Founders are called conservative. Just another fact GF.
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GoneFishin
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Not Only That BUT
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9/29/2012 6:21:10 PM
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The Republican Party began as a liberal party.
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HubCap
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Not Only That BUT
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9/29/2012 6:53:37 PM (updated 9/29/2012 6:54:40 PM)
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What happen G F did they get kick in the head by a mule or too much in-breeding?
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