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Old 07-30-2012, 08:21 PM
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...I just don't think you can argue politics with a Conservative. At some point their natural instinct is to just lash out. I have my definite opinons but don't claim to be correct 100% of the time. I think righties do and even if they may have their doubts about an issue, the default is being a Liberal is a small step from being a communist, socialist or even the devil. I have never voted for a repubilican and loathe most of their platform, but still enjoy the debate. I wish that could happen more.
An interesting thing that psychologists and neurologists have found, is that, the part of the brain "liberals" and "conservatives" think with is different (conservatives tend to default to "automatic thinking", liberal tend to "analyze", and no, that has nothing to do with intelligence); and very conservative people tend to be authoritarian, and work from a father-figure mode: there are rules, and you never break them. Period. Liberals tend to look at each situation, shades of grey, etc.

Doesn't mean one is right or wrong, they are just truly, measurably different in how they think and approach problems or discussions.
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