*dies laughing*

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

Okay. I suspect that I shouldn't find this nearly so funny as I do.

This just in: Conservative politics are genetic!

My favorite tidbit of insufferable condescension:

I've long wondered how an otherwise seemingly rational person could adhere so strictly to stilted ideologies; how they could be so consistently willing to smother a sense of social well-being.

It's merely a matter of having been dumped in the shallow end of the gene pool.

They're sorta like the puppy who piddles in the middle of the floor: They just don't know any better.

You heard it here first, folks! I have no choice but to be right. (Pun? What pun? Where?) Being right, like everything else, has turned out to be hereditary.

(HT: Fran Porretto of Eternity Road, please feel free to snag the link. x-posted to my personal journal)

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[lemonlye.livejournal.com]

*groan*
Love it when fellow Seattleites make us look like asshats. He's going to get more than a few nastygrams in answer to that one, I'm betting. ;)

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, as darthbeckman pointed out, if this is true, we will eventually overwhelm the opposition by dint of higher fertility rates. *smirk*

[lemonlye.livejournal.com]

Exactly! You know, one time I mentioned in my LJ that abortionists were basically killing off their own side, and thus conservatives were likelier to flourish (since they don't kill their children), and I got all kinds of sneering, "Oh, so there's a 'conservative gene'? Like, I'm so sure," comments from liberals. I guess there IS a conservative gene, but only if a liberal says so. ;)

[sophysduckling.livejournal.com]

omg! natural selection at work!

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

I am almost tempted to become a Darwinist at this...but then rearranging facts to one's own convenience should remain a purely liberal failing if possible.

[phangurl.livejournal.com]

we will eventually overwhelm the opposition by dint of higher fertility rates.

This is actually a pretty popular social theory, believe it or not.

[asilvertear.livejournal.com]

Y'know, if it was genetic, I'd think that Kerry was conservative. Because that's what the people I get the bulk of my genetics from think. In fact, my mother would as well, because that's what the people she gets all of her genetics from think.

... so, stupid person. Ew.

[neemarita.livejournal.com]

Well, my dad is a conservative. Mom was a crazy hippy...who is a conservative now thanks to my political rantings. At least I can make Republican babies, right? LOL.

[sophysduckling.livejournal.com]

Well, your genotype probably says "Rr," so it really depends on whom you marry. If he also has a leftist parent, then his getype will also be Rr, so you have a 1/4 chance of getting an rr, or a leftist. If that happens, you'll have to be very careful in how you condition the little tyke. ;)

[neemarita.livejournal.com]

LOL! If I end up marrying my boyfriend for example, he's RR, we'll be fine. ;)

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

Yay for converted hippies! My brother's girlfriend has a bumpersticker that reads "Hippy once, conservative now, counter-culture always!"

[izuko.livejournal.com]

See, I keep telling people that liberalism is the result of in-breeding!

[lawofar18.livejournal.com]

DAMN YOU PARENTS!

DAMN YOU FOR THIS HORRIBLE LIFE YOU HAVE CONDEMNED ME TO!!!

[ladystrange2000.livejournal.com]

*Icon luv*

I notice no actual doctor is mentioned, nor any study name, nor who did the study. This is supposed to be a medical study yet it's published in a political journal. Once again proving liberals don't need the facts messing up their preconcieved, faux-scientific notions.

Although it does raise an interesting question. Since conservatives, like gays, are "born that way", can't they just leave us alone to live our different lifestyle in peace? ;)

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

(rockin' icon courtesy of fellow rightfangirl foodsthatcan)

But didn't you know? Recent studies prove that facts automatically realign themselves when a liberal speaks, rendering cross-checking obsolete.

And yeah: poor us! We are the victims of the genetic lottery! Leave us to our carpet piddling in peace!

[sparrowrose.livejournal.com]

hmm.. if conservatives are born, not made, does the fact that I was a flaming liberal through my twenties and didn't become conservative until only about a decade ago make me a .... late bloomer?

[simarilian.livejournal.com]

There was a similar report I saw last year about this sort of stuff. Of course the tolerant inclusive party will immediately use it to proclaim conservatives are genetically inferior.

Of course any real study will show that it's age and experience that turns individuals from liberalism to conservatism in general. A growth in responsibility in general tends to change a person's outlook over time.

[sparrowrose.livejournal.com]

The one you saw last year, would that be the California study that concluded that conservatism is a mental illness that will, if left unchecked, eventually lead to depression and suicide?

Of course any real study will show that it's age and experience that turns individuals from liberalism to conservatism in general.

Just like Churchill said! :-)

[simarilian.livejournal.com]

That's probably the one. It's a constant theme. That it's only natural to be a liberal socialist, so there must be some deep disturbing reason for people to hold conservative values {besides the objective evidence of hundreds of years}.

Then it comes to them.

"Conservatives are all retards!"

How tolerant, how accepting of the diversity of thought.

[sparrowrose.livejournal.com]

I found the citation for the article that news story references:

Are Political Orientations Genetically Transmitted? By: Alford, John R.; Funk, Carolyn L.; Hibbing, John R.. American Political Science Review, May2005, Vol. 99 Issue 2, p153, 15p; (AN 17276698)

but it doesn't have full text on EBSCO but we have that issue in the library. If you (or anyone) is curious, I can scan the original article.

[phoenix-starr.livejournal.com]

I'd love to read it! :)

[auntiea-33.livejournal.com]

Here's another for the maturity breeds conservatives arguement (pardon the pun).

My mother is a graduate of Vassar College (Class of 1950?) which is seen as a Liberal college because it is. When I was younger, I would find highly amusing any article that came out mentioning Vassar's liberal bent. Why? Because I would think of my mother and all of her friends that had gone to Vassar with her and there is maybe ONE person out of that group that I would consider liberal today, some fifty years after college. They are conservative.

I told my mother this and she laughed. She said she had read an article in the Vassar Quarterly (the alumni magazine) about a poll taken on political beliefs just after college graduation, then 10 or 15 years after college graduation.

The findings were while the majority of recent graduates (no matter what year they graduated or their gender) identified themselves as liberal in their political views, when they were asked again 10, 15 years later, the majority of those same graduates now identified themselves as being conservative in the political views.

Why the switch? It's called the real world. It's nice to think and say 'Let's promise health care for everyone' when you don't have to foot part of the bill but when you start working and see where your money is going (in terms of what the government takes) then the thought processes start to change.

Does this mean that all these people suddenly turn cold and heartless? No, they've just gotten their first reality check.

[mosellegreen.livejournal.com]

I used to have arguments about free will with this friend of mine. He would say that to us lowly mortal crawling around it looks like we have free will, but if our brains were large enough to hold everything in the history of the Universe, if we were God, we'd be able to see the predestination. We had several rounds of this before I informed him that the forces of genetics and history ever since the Big Bang have predestined me to believe in free will so there's no way he could argue me out of it.