How to spot a baby conservative

[afleitch]

This is cute

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1142722231554&call_pageid=970599119419

'Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, and was always running to the teacher with complaints? Chances are he grew up to be a conservative...'


'...A few decades later, Block followed up with more surveys, looking again at personality, and this time at politics, too. The whiny kids tended to grow up conservative, and turned into rigid young adults who hewed closely to traditional gender roles and were uncomfortable with ambiguity.

The confident kids turned out liberal and were still hanging loose, turning' into bright, non-conforming adults with wide interests. The girls were still outgoing, but the young men tended to turn a little introspective.'

[MODU]

hehehe . . . must be why Republicans are always more 'happier' than democrats. 

"Republicans happier than rivals"

Who are the happiest people in America?
    Conservative Republicans are among the most joyous, according to a survey released yesterday by the Pew Research Center for the Public and the Press, which found that 47 percent of respondents who were both conservative and Republican said they were "very happy."

    The survey was specific. This isn't just ho-hum happy. This is emphatically happy.

    The group was eclipsed only by well-heeled Republicans with more than $150,000 in annual incomes -- 52 percent were very happy -- and people who attend church at least once a week, with incomes of more than $50,000 a year. Half of them also said they had a happy mind-set.

(...Continuing down...)

The findings revealed that the Republican Party has an upbeat history: Republicans have been consistently happier than Democrats every year since the survey began in 1972, with up to a 17 percentage point lead. Republicans topped their rivals by 11 points even during the Carter and Clinton presidencies, according to Pew.

(Cont...)

hehehe . . . so either whining makes you happy, or being confident makes you less happy.  *laughs* 

[jokerman]

Hmm, they just say their "happy" as a part of their insecurity

[The Man From G.O.P.]

Notice where the study was done.... Berkley

[Rin-chan]

I am living proof this is crap.  I was really outgoing in preschool (I'm not now...).  I actually forced a guy to "marry" me and made my friends come to our "wedding".  I couldn't stop talking and running around and loved was a goody-two-shoes.

Kindergarten I stopped talking because I was teased alot, but I was originally outgoing.

Rin-chan

[Bacon King]

I am living proof this is crap.  I was really outgoing in preschool (I'm not now...).  I actually forced a guy to "marry" me and made my friends come to our "wedding".  I couldn't stop talking and running around and loved was a goody-two-shoes.

Kindergarten I stopped talking because I was teased alot, but I was originally outgoing.

Rin-chan

Then again, as you get older you could turn liberal.

[dazzleman]

It's hard to take seriously a study of political views that was centered in Berzerkeley, California, which isn't even part of the United States as far as I'm concerned.

[phk]

It's hard to take seriously a study of political views that was centered in Berzerkeley, California, which isn't even part of the United States as far as I'm concerned.

College Republicans is the largest club at UC Bezerkley.

[dazzleman]

It's hard to take seriously a study of political views that was centered in Berzerkeley, California, which isn't even part of the United States as far as I'm concerned.

College Republicans is the largest club at UC Bezerkley.

I'm surprised the university hasn't expelled them.

In any case, I doubt many of those students are actually from the Berzerkely area originally.

[phk]

It's hard to take seriously a study of political views that was centered in Berzerkeley, California, which isn't even part of the United States as far as I'm concerned.

College Republicans is the largest club at UC Bezerkley.

I'm surprised the university hasn't expelled them.

In any case, I doubt many of those students are actually from the Berzerkely area originally.

Well most to be fair, the club is mostly just an easy way to get alchohol.

[dazzleman]

It's hard to take seriously a study of political views that was centered in Berzerkeley, California, which isn't even part of the United States as far as I'm concerned.

College Republicans is the largest club at UC Bezerkley.

I'm surprised the university hasn't expelled them.

In any case, I doubt many of those students are actually from the Berzerkely area originally.

Well most to be fair, the club is mostly just an easy way to get alchohol.

Isn't that true of most college clubs?  They exist to get alcohol and get laid.

And contrary to popular misconceptions, Republicans have just as much fun at college as Democrats do.

[Rin-chan]

I am living proof this is crap.  I was really outgoing in preschool (I'm not now...).  I actually forced a guy to "marry" me and made my friends come to our "wedding".  I couldn't stop talking and running around and loved was a goody-two-shoes.

Kindergarten I stopped talking because I was teased alot, but I was originally outgoing.

Rin-chan

Then again, as you get older you could turn liberal.

That's not happening anytime soon, I can assure you.

Rin-chan

[phk]

It's hard to take seriously a study of political views that was centered in Berzerkeley, California, which isn't even part of the United States as far as I'm concerned.

College Republicans is the largest club at UC Bezerkley.

I'm surprised the university hasn't expelled them.

In any case, I doubt many of those students are actually from the Berzerkely area originally.

Well most to be fair, the club is mostly just an easy way to get alchohol.

Isn't that true of most college clubs?  They exist to get alcohol and get laid.

What about the "family values"?

On top of that Bezerkly didn't even qualify as one of the top 10 most liberal colleges in the US.

[dazzleman]

Isn't that true of most college clubs?  They exist to get alcohol and get laid.

What about the "family values"?

On top of that Bezerkly didn't even qualify as one of the top 10 most liberal colleges in the US.

Hah, can't you tolerate a little contradiction?  We all have a little contradiction in us.  Remember these words:

I've seen a rich man beg
I've seen a good man sin
I've seen a tough man cry
I've seen a loser win
And a sad man grin
I've heard an honest man lie
I've seen the good side of bad
And the downside of up
And everything between
I've licked the silver spoon
Drank from the golden cup
And smoked the finest green

You probably know what song that is from.

I can't say about Berzerkeley the college, but the area around Berzerkeley is surely one of the most rabidly liberal areas of the country, and it is in this area that the whole study was based.

[Hatman 🍁]

'Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, and was always running to the teacher with complaints?

Sounds just like me. I sense serious flaws in this.

[dazzleman]

'Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, and was always running to the teacher with complaints?

Sounds just like me. I sense serious flaws in this.

Thanks for being honest, man.  You're not exactly the stereotypical conservative...

This study can't possibly be valid.  It actually contradicts strongly my own personal observations, and being based exclusively in Berzerkely makes it completely useless as a political study.

[Gustaf]

There was a similar study in Sweden that was conduceted secretly for a long time as some sort of military experiment. I remember that it reached only two statistically verifiable correlations between partisan self-identification and other variables:

Communists were more intelligent than the average
Social Democrats were less intelligent than the average
Conservatives were more interested in sports
Centrists were more interested in motor cycles
Liberals loved nature more (I think, I'm unsure about the liberals one)

The study doesn't seem big enough.

[Serenity Now]

Notice where the study was done.... Berkley

It's hard to take seriously a study of political views that was centered in Berzerkeley, California, which isn't even part of the United States as far as I'm concerned.

Yes, but they do (kind of) account for that further into the article.

[Rin-chan]

Well it is obvious why these things are true, Republicans get through the whole everyone's out to get me phase at a young age. Democrats however feel that people are stealing elections from them all the time and go through the phase later on so of course their paranoia makes them less happy than Republicans when they get older...

Yes this makes perfect sense...

lol

When you look at it that way...

I almost didn't recognize you in red!

Rin-chan

[afleitch]

I conducted my own study on this and found that liberal babies were more inclined to "be that perverted kid in day care that grabbed everybody's testicles."

Thats because Liberals grab things by the balls if they have to get a point across.

[Foley]

I conducted my own study on this and found that liberal babies were more inclined to "be that perverted kid in day care that grabbed everybody's testicles."

Only when you paid them to.

[Rin-chan]

I conducted my own study on this and found that liberal babies were more inclined to "be that perverted kid in day care that grabbed everybody's testicles."

Thats because Liberals grab things by the balls if they have to get a point across.

OKAY, unnecessary mental picture...

*claws eyeballs*

*goes to watch American Idol*

Rin-chan