Scientists Explain Why People Vote For Republicans (Gawker)

[struggle4progress]

... Let's take a look at what America's top scienticians say about fucking idiot flyover losers and their stupid voting: ...

Rice University Political Scientist John Alford published some research in the creatively named journal Science about a possible biological basis to liberalism and conservatism. Basically, "46 mostly white Midwesterners who self-identified as having strong political beliefs" were shown "threatening images" ("a large spider on someone's face, a bloodied person and maggot-filled wound"). The conservatives were more scared, of all of the images ...

.. Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler's .... took two groups of volunteers and gave them the Bush administration's prewar claims that Iraq was a threat and had weapons of mass destruction .... Thirty-four percent of conservatives told only about the Bush administration's claims thought Iraq had hidden or destroyed its weapons before the U.S. invasion, but 64 percent of conservatives who heard both claim and refutation thought that Iraq really did have the weapons. The refutation, in other words, made the misinformation worse. This "backfire" effect only worked on conservatives ...

Jonathan Haidt, a psychologist, wrote a lengthy anthropological investigation into why people vote for Republicans ... Liberals and college students define morality as "how we treat each other," conservatives attach more significance to "supporting essential institutions, and living in a sanctified and noble way." Liberals recognize fairness and care as important moral virtues, conservatives add to that loyalty, respect for authority, and duty. The educated moral relativism worldview is fundamentally incompatible with the way like 50% of America thinks ...

http://gawker.com/5052329/scientists-explain-why-people-vote-for-republicans

[Cheap_Trick]

1. I'll give you the un-scientific reason

THEY'RE FUCKING STUPID.

[FiveGoodMen]

2. I'll tell you how they GOT so stupid

When they were little, grown-ups -- dozens at a time -- surrounded them and praised them and patted their little heads every time they ignored whatever evidence was in front of them and instead repeated some moronic nonsense that they were told.

They were conditioned to feel good about themselves whenever they denied facts and upheld ridiculous, unsupportable stories.

There are indoctrination centers for this very purpose in every town all over the world.

[libodem]

3. We expect an onslaught of books

from the right wing 'entertainment sector' to go on a tirade about how Liberalism is a thought disorder. Just like after the studies about how conservatism was an emotional illness we got the ghost written escapes about how Liberalism is a mental illness. Watch and wait. This is so Orwellian with the double speak and turning facts around from what is actually true and a reality. Effing spin zone! Then you can't fight the bastards because they only dig their heels in deeper in the face of irrefutable evidence.