05-18-2012, 05:07 PM
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Keeneland
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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Why Is the Conservative Brain More Fearful?
The Alternate Reality Right-Wingers Inhabit Is Terrifying
Walk a mile in your ideological counterparts' shoes...if you dare.
May 2, 2012
Consider for a moment just how terrifying it must be to live life as a true believer on the right. Reality is scary enough, but the alternative reality inhabited by people who watch Glenn Beck, listen to Rush Limbaugh, or think Michele Bachmann isn't a joke must be nothing less than horrifying.
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Mooney concludes that this “new research suggests [that] conservatism is largely a defensive ideology -- and therefore, much more appealing to people who go through life sensitive and highly attuned to aversive or threatening aspects of their environments.”
But those cognitive biases are only part of the story of how a political movement in the wealthiest, most secure nation in the world have come to view their surroundings with such dread. The other half of the equation is a conservative media establishment that feeds members of the movement an almost endless stream of truly terrifying scenarios.
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http://www.alternet.org/media/155210..._is_terrifying
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