Brain Wiring

Brain Wiring

Postby restan on 06/28/08, 7:26 am

Do you ever wonder why liberals don't think like conservatives? Why two people can view the same event but have different perceptions of what occurred? We have a population composed of roughly 40% libs, 40% cons
and 20% middle of the roaders. A liberal MUST think the way he does because of the way his brain is wired.
So too for a conservative. When you talk to a conservative he can understand what you are saying and will generally agree with you. A liberal will think you are nuts and run to tell his lib buddies how crazy cons are and they will  nod in agreement. Liberals MUST think the way they do and cannot change their minds even when confronted with the facts. An example of this is the fact that cutting taxes leads to more business activity. This is easily understandable and provable. A liberal cannot understand this, he thinks a tax raise solves most problems. This is why President Obama is going to sock it to you.
Brain research shows that the right lobe is the idealistic, artistic, head in the clouds lobe. The left lobe is the good at math, logic, reasonable lobe. If you wish to learn more on this subject, google  Right brain--Left brain.
The bottom line is that the lib is wired differently, he MUST think differently (he has no choice), and this is why we have no consensus on issues in this country. This is why we have different political parties. And this is why we have such heated political arguments.
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Re: Brain Wiring

Postby dittohead on 06/29/08, 2:52 pm

Conservatives and liberals bring to the table a very opposite worldview.  

Conservatives embrace the Judeo-Christian values on which our country was founded - that man is basically evil.  Our founding fathers also believed that each citizen was created with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The framers of our constitution created our government with this in mind;  skillfully constructing an intricate and cumbersome set of checks and balances to minimize the harm an evil person or party might be able to inflict on it's citizens.  

John Adams wrote:  'To expect self-denial from men when they have a majority in their favor and the power to gratify themselves is to disbelieve all of history and universal experience.'
James Madison wrote: 'If men were angels, no government would be necessary.  If angels were to govern men, no internal or external controls on government would be necessary.  But, of course, men are not angels - a government must be established that can not abuse it's authority.  You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place oblige it to control itself.'

A liberal believes that man is basically good and embraces the utopian notion that government can fix all that is wrong with our society.  The liberal view is that  human ignorance and inadequate social institutions are all that separate us from achieving this utopian society.

So yes, I agree with you that conservatives and liberals have their brain wired very differently.
"One can not say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect and at the same time" - Aristotle

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Re: Brain Wiring

Postby restan on 06/29/08, 3:32 pm

Very interesting. There is indeed some different wiring at work here. I would say it this way:
Liberals do not think they can do it, therefore they need the government to do it for them. That is why we had The Great Society, Affirmative Action, and ACLU. This is also why you will have higher taxes: the government will force the producers to pay the non-producers. This is also why our school system is a failure and we will be unable to compete with China and India in the new global economy. The  liberals think man is good, except for the conservatives who hire them, make the economy go, and protect them from terrorism. This is why I call liberals supplicants, they are always whining about not getting their share of the pie, too much judgementalism that interferes with their licentious lives and needing more restrictions on the corporations and businesses that furnish them a living. If a liberal would get an education, show some ambition and go to work each day, he might find happiness and security and no need to whine. The only Utopia you'll ever have is what you can create for yourself, not what the government can steal for you.
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Re: Brain Wiring

Postby SoldiersMum on 06/29/08, 3:38 pm

I don't buy it.  I do not believe ideologies are based on brain wiring.  It is not a brain defect.  Your left/right lobes have nothing to do with your ideology except possibly how you spacially interpret information. If you are left handed, your dominate side is your right side.  If you are right handed, your dominate side is your left side.  

Here's the reason, in my opinion.  Brainwashing and indoctrination by one socialist voice saying the same thing over and over again thru the Communist Party DNC and the MSM for the last 7+years.  (actually much longer than that but they have gotten much more in step with each other and much bolder since Bush Stole the election.)

There are too many people in this country who do not do an ounce of diligence to look for varying opinions or the truth.  When they hear "The Republicans are the Culture of Corruption" by every single driveby and read it in every newspaper or magazine and hear the elected officials say it..all of them repeating it over and over again, it becomes truth..the Republicans are the Culture of Corruption.

Once brainwashed their thinking is done and they repeat the mantra of the Communist Party DNC.  They have been programmed.  Anything that varies from their programming is wrong.  They do not have the thinking ability to even discusss what has been placed into their brains and only revert to namecalling and anger.  They are mind-numbed robots.
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Re: Brain Wiring

Postby restan on 06/29/08, 5:30 pm

Mum, I would suggest you Google  Left Brain-Right Brain. Read several of the articles there. This will explain to you the differences.
You may be interested in this:


Right and Left Brain Hemispheric Biases in Political and Religious Tendencies: Part 1


C. Brack and X. Zhang





I. Summary

A self-assessment Internet survey was conducted by Brack and Zhang on Neuro-politics.com. The survey collected 490 questionnaires, which were subsequently cleansed for 48 cases of probable duplicate or incomplete responses. This left 442 usable questionnaires, of which 218 indicated support for George W. Bush, 195 for John Kerry, and 29 for unspecified other candidates. This survey period was January 28 through March 4, 2005. The survey questions were adapted from similar left-right brain surveys, with slight variations. Additional questions were included to determine family birth order, political affiliations, and strength of religious belief.


The survey indicated a statistically significant left hemispheric bias, (p < .02), for subjects that described themselves as Conservative as compared to both Moderates and Liberals. (For this statistic, we have combined the Very Conservative into the Conservative cohort. We have also combined the Very Liberal into the Liberal cohort). When not combined, this left hemispheric bias was exacerbated in subjects that described themselves as Very Conservative.


There was a statistically significant right hemispheric bias, (p < .01) for subjects that described themselves as Liberal, as compared to Conservatives and Moderates. (For this statistic, we have combined the Very Conservative into the Conservative cohort. We have also combined the Very Liberal into the Liberal Cohort). When not combined, this right hemispheric bias was exacerbated in subjects that described themselves as Very Liberal.


Liberals
had a slightly lower l[I]eft
hemisphere score than Moderates, but this was not statistically significant. Moderates exhibited a slightly higher right hemisphere score than Conservatives, but this too was not statistically significant.[/I]

Moderates exhibited the smallest mean difference between left and right responses, and also had the lowest average left + right responses.


The survey results are consistent with the hypothesis of general left hemispheric biases for Conservatives and general right hemispheric biases for Liberals, and more neutral biases for Moderates.


Relative to Conservatives, Liberals tend to exhibit a more right-brained orientation for language processing and simple arithmetic processing, reality model building, creativity and artistic expression, and emotional processing.


Relative to Liberals, the left-brain oriented Conservatives tend to exhibit enhanced literal language processing skills, exact arithmetic calculation skills, a greater tendency to build binary reality models of the world (i.e., "Good" and "Evil"), a greater tendency for belief-bias, and an enhanced time-vector orientation.


Moderates
exhibit a more blended attribute mix, with equivalent simple arithmetic skills as the [I]Conservatives
, but a lesser ability in literal language processing that is more comparable to Liberals. Moderates show enhanced time-vector orientation when compared to Liberals, and a lower tendency to build binary reality-models of the world than Conservatives. Moderates tend to exhibit less belief-bias than the Conservatives. Moderates generally fall in between Conservatives and Liberals in many of the questions.[/I]

Those indicating support for George W. Bush had a statistically significant left hemispheric bias, (p < .02). Those indicating support for John Kerry had a statistically significant right hemispheric bias (p < .01).


The survey indicated a statistically significant left hemispheric bias, (p < .01), for subjects that described themselves as Very Religious as compared to both Not Religious and A Little Religious.


There was also a statistically significant right hemispheric bias, (p < .02), for subjects that described themselves as Not Religious as compared to Very Religious


There was also a statistically significant right hemispheric bias, (p < .06), for subjects that described themselves as a Little Religious as compared to Very Religious.


The Very Religious mirror the Conservative cohorts quite closely with general left hemispheric biases. They exhibit a similar tendency for belief-bias and binary reality models, exact simple arithmetic skills, enhanced time-vector orientation, enhanced literal language processing skills, and a lesser tendency for right-brained emotional processing.


The Not Religious mirror the Liberals quite closely with their general right hemispheric biases. They exhibit similar deficits at literal language processing and exact simple arithmetic processing when compared to the Very Religious. They exhibit a slightly higher tendency than the Liberals for belief-bias and binary reality model building, but much less than the Very Religious. They exhibit less right brain emotional processing attributes than the Liberals, but still higher than the Very Religious. Breaking pattern, they are less likely to exhibit affective language.


The Little Religious have an interesting characteristic, which is a higher tendency towards right hemisphere emotional processing than either the Very Religious or the Not Religious. They have a slightly more difficult time than the Very Religious .    http://neuropolitics.org/Right-and-Left-Brain-Hemispheric-Asymmetries-Part-1.htm
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Re: Brain Wiring

Postby watcher on 06/29/08, 6:24 pm

This is story that my Grandmother once told me.  It applies so well to liberalism. I though I would share it with you.
Replace the word God with Government

John was hanging onto his chimney as the high water swirled around him.  A couple in a makeshift raft floated by and yelled to him “jump we will pull on.”
John told them “No. I’ll be alright, my God will save me.”
A short time later a fireman in a motorboat came by and yelled to John, “Jump, I pull you on board.” John told him “No. I’ll be alright, my God will save me.”
It was almost dark and overhead John heard the sound of a helicopter. The pilot, using a Megaphone yelled to him to “jump we will pull you up.”  John waved him off yelling back “No. I’ll be alright, my God will save me.”

John looks up and sees he is standing in front of this big gate and St. Peter comes walking up and asks him “Are you John?” “Yes” John replied back. “Welcome John, do you have any questions” “Yes I do, St Peter.  Why am I here? My God was supposed to save me”.
St Peter sighed, “John, God sent you a raft and you said no. God sent you a motorboat and you said no and God sent you a helicopter and you still said no.  Somewhere along the line you didn’t learn that you have to known when to help yourself.”
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light
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Re: Brain Wiring

Postby restan on 06/29/08, 7:02 pm

Good Watcher....that says it all.
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