So how do they explain the 18-20-something’s who live at home and go to school on Mommy and Daddy’s dime, who party and smoke dope most of their free waking hours, and are liberal Democrap voters… then they grow up, get a job, cut the umbilical cord and move out of the parents house, get married, start paying bills, start paying taxes, start raising children, then start to vote Conservative?

Aren’t the genes we get, permanent?

Baldness is genetic too, but it doesn’t typically hit until later in life.

OK, So if this is true and my conservatism is hard wired genetically, then clearly, based on tried and true liberal principles, anyone that disagrees with me is a racist.

JayHaw Phrenzie on May 24, 2007 at 12:29 PM

Which is, ironically, the very arguement that liberals have been making for the last. . .for my whole life.

Ah. So liberalism really *is* a mental disorder. Gotcha.

Professor Blather on May 24, 2007 at 11:40 AM

Grrr beat me too it! I can’t wait to be able to get past the firewall at work again :) Anyone know how to hack Vista’s parental controls?

- The Cat

P.S. This reminds me of the thing. “Only straight perants have gay children.”

right2bright on May 24, 2007 at 1:10 PM

Easy, now. The old folks are liberal in a Lou Dobbsish kinda way, and the sister is getting turned out to the dark side as we speak.

Liberalism is, bottom line, simply a refusal to grow up and take on adult responsibility for the slings and arrows of mortal existence: refusing to look within for answers to what’s bothering them in their lives.

It’s manifested by a collection of psychological avoidance mechanisms – denial, projection and displacement being the top three – as well as a mental laziness that refuses to grapple with what Napoleon Hill called the “Seven Major Negative Emotions” (Anger, Hatred, Jealousy, Greed, Fear, Superstition, Revenge) that, when you think about it, form the basis for much of what liberals constantly feel and express.

Whatever the root cause of the arrested pre-adolescence that is the essence of liberalism – harsh toilet training, not getting that toy they really, really, really wanted for Christmas when they were six, or because when they said, “Mommy, look at me!” mommmy didn’t look – it’s libs’ inability to cope with human nature, personal responsibility and the simple fact that Life Is Not Always Fair that leads them to the infantilism that is their signature characteristic.

In fact, saying “It’s not my fault! It’s my genes, I can’t help it!” is – drumroll, please – simply another avoidance mechanism. Anybody else see a pattern here?

Spurius Ligustinus on May 24, 2007 at 12:41 PM

Wow – well said. Especially the “arrested pre-adolescence” part.

I concur completely. I long ago concluded that liberalism is fundamentally based in immaturity.

Which is why most people tend to become more conservative as they age, and encounter that real-world reality you describe. Hell, I voted for Dukakis back in the day … and then I grew up.

I honestly believe that all – and I mean all, without exception – liberals are either 1) very young, 2) very immature and stuck in that “arrested pre-adolescence,” 3) part of some societal group that is “owed” something by the government – or think they are (and that is in itself a kind of rampant immaturity), or 4) living their lives in some way that protects them from reality – as in, Hollywood actors, the mega-rich who inherited their wealth … or those who spent their lives in academia.

I believe every single liberal on Earth falls into one of those categories – and that as soon as they leave their category, they’ll almost certainly stop being liberal.

Liberalism cannot survive maturity and reality. Get a job, have a family, work in the real-world … and liberalism becomes laughable.

Yep! My point exactly.

I’m conservative and it’s not your fault if your a liberal. So Bush shouldn’t be blamed by the left for the war or the right for the immigration bill. He can’t help it – it’s the genes or maybe the…

The notion that a discovery like this would lead to “tolerance” is inexplicable. There is an even more obvious genetic difference between myself and a cougar. This only means that, when a cougar is intent on eating me, my only recourse is to kill it. I might well understand the cougar’s inclinations, but that in no way entails that I would be rational to tolerate its behavior.

Blacklake on May 24, 2007 at 11:47 AM

Excellent analogy !

Ah, biological positivism at its finest. People don’t choose anything, and problem groups (those preventing this tolerant society) need rehabilitation and not punishment.

Wineaholic on May 24, 2007 at 11:04 AM

As Schaefer said when Material Monism is the worldview, man no longer becomes autonomous but just a small cog in the machine called nature. Free Will is lost.

If this is true then why are young people more inclined to be liberal than mature people… do their genes change?

Maxx on May 24, 2007 at 1:15 PM

Yes, I when from Lee Jeans to Levies Genes. When I reached 40.

If this is true then why are young people more inclined to be liberal than mature people… do their genes change?

Kid from Brooklyn on May 24, 2007 at 11:16 AM

Sounds like your name should be “Kid from Hell”.

Nonsense. Both my parents are libs, as is my sister.

Kid from Brooklyn on May 24, 2007 at 11:16 AM

Same here.

This one comes under the heading of when all you have is a hammer, every problem appears to be a nail.

Lost — with little ability to find the path at this point.

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Ah. So liberalism really *is* a mental disorder. Gotcha.

Professor Blather on May 24, 2007 at 11:40 AM

Sums it up well, professor. “Genetics” my arse.

Liberalism is, bottom line, simply a refusal to grow up and take on adult responsibility for the slings and arrows of mortal existence: refusing to look within for answers to what’s bothering them in their lives.

It’s manifested by a collection of psychological avoidance mechanisms – denial, projection and displacement being the top three – as well as a mental laziness that refuses to grapple with what Napoleon Hill called the “Seven Major Negative Emotions” (Anger, Hatred, Jealousy, Greed, Fear, Superstition, Revenge) that, when you think about it, form the basis for much of what liberals constantly feel and express.

Whatever the root cause of the arrested pre-adolescence that is the essence of liberalism – harsh toilet training, not getting that toy they really, really, really wanted for Christmas when they were six, or because when they said, “Mommy, look at me!” mommmy didn’t look – it’s libs’ inability to cope with human nature, personal responsibility and the simple fact that Life Is Not Always Fair that leads them to the infantilism that is their signature characteristic.

In fact, saying “It’s not my fault! It’s my genes, I can’t help it!” is – drumroll, please – simply another avoidance mechanism. Anybody else see a pattern here?

“Forty, perhaps 50 percent of our political beliefs seem to have a basis in genetics,” said Hibbing,

What a bunch of cr@p. Just like everything else that makes up who we are. Part of it is genes the other part is environment. Who is this joker stirring the pot?