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WHAT ARE POLITICAL CONSERVATIVES MADE OF?

In re my previous post: at UC Berkeley, "Four researchers who culled through 50 years of research literature about the psychology of conservatism report that at the core of political conservatism is the [sic] resistance to change and a tolerance for inequality, and that some of the common psychological factors linked to political conservatism include:

Fear and aggression
Dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity
Uncertainty avoidance
Need for cognitive closure
Terror management"


Although none of the above will come as a surprise to any activist who has ever questioned a status quo, the academic cachet is nice. Already I can hear the pallid spokesmen of the concretized saying "Well of course, it would come out of Berkeley..." A veritable hotbed of spiritual evolution. You can read the entire article here.

[Thanks to Ron Andrews for this one.]