Here's an article that might explain why conservatives and liberals cannot see eye to eye.

Well, that explain at least two things:

(1) Why liberals tend to take a little longer to reach their conclusions- they're more willing and capable of looking at a situation and conflict from more than one angle.

And...

(2) Liberals are able to process information a lot more accurately and are quite a bit more likely to to come to the most correct conclusions.

Might be a lot of truth to that. Maybe that's the primary reason conservatives hate liberals- because the brains of liberals use more brain cells and think in a far more all-encompassing and complex and manner when dealing with a conflict and, for that reason, are essentially wiser and effectively more intelligent than conservatives and can come to more competent conclusions and answers and conservatives deeply resent coming in second to liberals in those respects.

Sometimes it might be a good thing to "know your place", according to what this study is indicating.

Gem

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Damn, just when I thought I'd get through the day without coffee shooting out my nose from laugher.

You never disappoint, gem!

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If we take what you say as true, that liberals evaluate many angles, and we consider that you are a liberal; it's funny that you missed a thread about this topic that's only a week old:

Political bent hard wired?

It’s also funny that you state conservatives hate liberals. Did you forget another angle that liberals hate conservatives (if we stay on the line with your generalizing statement in the first place)?

It’s funny that you equate brain activity in the anterior cingulated cortex to “using more brain cells” and processing information (in general) more accurately.

I guess we can count on you to look at a bunch of angles before coming to any conclusions.

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This would be the third thread by my count, all in this same sub-forum.

Tiresome topic. American so-called research citing "liberals" and "conservatives" is suspect by definition.

It isn't that I hate conservatives per se, Si Modo. The guy that I invited into my home and shop is a conservative and we get along great. The kind of conservatives that I can't stand are the ones that apparently haven't got the common sense to know when they've exceeded their level of expertise and get themselves into situations that are way over their heads.

Gem

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You bring up quite the strawman, Gem, with your implication that I said you hate conservatives. Apply some of your "looking at more angles" abilities to find where I stated that and maybe you will find who actually stated it.

Are strawmen angles?

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The point is, Gem, there are already a few threads on this topic. It's tired and has been discussed elsewhere. Either you didn't see the existing threads, didn't read the existing threads, or felt that your thread brought a new angle to the discussion. It didn't and that's pretty funny.

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I've got a lot of things going on this end and I did miss those threads. I just saw the article today and it confirmed my long-held suspicions about conservatives, or at least about the more reactionary and vitriolic ones. And a lot of the posts I see from conservatives most definitely is providing the kind of evidence needed to confirm the results of that study.

As to being "tired" are you sure you're just not tired of it because it is once again confirming that what US liberals have been thinking and saying about conservatives might just be getting proven true? I know it's gotta be demoralizing and hard to take, Si Modo, so I fully understand why you are compelled to call this subject a tired one. If I were a Bush-lovin' Iraq war supportin' conservative I'd probably be wantin' to be saying the same thing too.

I understand.

Gem

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You mean like here? Your words, and implication, Si Modo. Post #6:

Gem

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Have you read the other threads? I doubt it. I suggest you do. There are some angles there that you may want to consider. You certainly aren't doing so now, and anyone who has seen the other threads and sees your continued pursuit of your "angles" here is getting a big laugh right now.

Just a helpful suggestion because I'm starting to cringe whenever I see your continued posts here. You've jumped to a rash conclusion, yet you claim to have the ability to look at angles...cringe.

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Most who are accused of being liberals in the USA, aren't liberals.

That's only fair, because most who are accused of being conservatives in the USA aren't conservatives.

Kinda tricky to follow US politics without a program (or definitions).

No, I haven't read those other threads. I'll check the one I saw mentioned. What are the titles of the other ones? List or link them here and I will read them too.

Gem

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"If" is a small word that means so much. With your demonstrated abilities to evaluate the angles, is it a surprise that you missed that little word? Seriously, your games are pathetic.

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and when liberals become conservatives maybe its because they get tired of the rigorous mental workout it takes to some how support thier positions.

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wow i never knew that liberal and conservative was genetic.

I would argue, that both 'sides' (and sides here is really a figment of our imagination) have their share of capable and flexible 'deep' thinkers, and both sides have their share of short sighted, spew my ideology because i like it type thinkers.

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