Gloom and doom

I've been watching the conservitard propaganda media the last couple of days. The common theme--more so than usual, it seems--is that the planet is spiraling into the sun and the only thing we can possibly do to stop it is to elect Republicans. Oh, and find Hunter Biden's mystical radioactive laptop.

It's been proven, in dozens of peer-reviewed studies, that conservatives' brains are different from normal brains. Specifically, the conservative brain's fear response is heightened. This means that conservatives fear change, which is the essence of conservatism--a worldview that states that change is inherently bad. You could also call it "inertia."

Now, change brought us fire, agriculture, paper, electric lights, cars, vaccines, computers, etc. And every one of those innovations was fiercely resisted by conservatives of the time. As was ending slavery, child labor laws, social security, etc. etc. etc. Not because said change was necessarily good or bad, but because it was...change. It heightened conservatives' fear responses, and they hated that. That hate usually overrode any consideration of whether or not the change was desirable.

So when you read conservative bleats, or talk to one, remember that everything they say and do is tainted by that fear. You're never going to get an objective assessment of a policy change, new law, new product, demographic shift, or anything that's DIFFERENT. That's behind, for instance, the ongoing conservative resistance to renewable energy and electric cars. It's also behind conservative race hatred and "replacement theory." (Of course, those stances are also driven by fossil fuel company propaganda and bribery, and good ol' prejudice, respectively, but FEAR is at the core of it.)

Now, this very moment, David Miller is furiously typing a post calling me a LIAR LIAR LIAR, stupid Tommie-poo is dredging up some statistics "proving" that Biden is the Antichrist, PackerFucker is telling us what I had for lunch six weeks ago, and Charles is exploding like an overripe zit. But regardless of all that nonsense, any rational person viewing the future has to be optimistic. I can list the reasons why, but I don't want to engage in some discussion about why XYZ is a good or a bad thing (dropping energy costs, for example, can be twisted by stupid Tommie-poo into a economic disaster for the galaxy). Just remember, everybody---conservatives are irrational. When they speak, remember that their view of the world is like a funhouse mirror. And react accordingly.

What are the citations for your 'peer-reviewed' studies that statistically prove (P<.05) 'conservative brains are different from normal brains' ? Then define a normal brain for us...the suggested control group, per se. You read some weird scientific journals.

Do you know how to use Google Scholar?

It doesn't take a formal study to discern that conservative behavior is abnormal--because if it was normal, humanity would have died out long ago. Conservative resistance to change has been around since Og invented fire, Thak burned himself, Thak killed Og, and Thak's tribe died out.

For a warmup, if you're truly interested, read Lydia Densworth's 10/26/20 article in Scientific American.

This is the proof for your exaggeration extrordinaire. Here's the relevant part of her article:

Conservative and Liberal Brains Might Have Some Real Differences  a well-regarded 2013 book called Predisposed, which introduced the general public to the field of political neuroscience. The authors, a trio of political scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Rice University, argued that if the differences between liberals and conservatives seem profound and even unbridgeable, it is because they are rooted in personality characteristics and biological predispositions. On the whole, the research shows, conservatives desire security, predictability and authority more than liberals do, and liberals are more comfortable with novelty, nuance and complexity. If you had put Buckley and Vidal in a magnetic resonance imaging machine and presented them with identical images, you would likely have seen differences in their brain, especially in the areas that process social and emotional information. The volume of gray matter, or neural cell bodies, making up the anterior cingulate cortex, an area that helps detect errors and resolve conflicts, tends to be larger in liberals. And the amygdala, which is important for regulating emotions and evaluating threats, is larger in conservatives. While these findings are remarkably consistent, they are probabilities, not certainties—meaning there is plenty of individual variability.

Read the last line Mr Lewis. Your long-winded pontificating, to try and show this to be profound and undeniable fact, is, shall we kindly say, without merit. You go right ahead and believe the probabilities to be certainties if it gets you through the day. Just don't expect rational people to follow you.

Well, stupid, had you comprehended the article, you would have understood that the author was talking about PREDISPOSITIONS, and degrees thereof, not absolute black or white.

Simplistic thinkers such as yourself may struggle with the concept. Perhaps you have problems with it because you're an extreme right-winger, so far to one side that you almost fall off the map. Was your brain built that way, or did it degenerate to its present condition? Who knows. But most folks aren't as far gone as you are.

It's interesting to understand the brain abnormalities of people like you.