Several recent studies suggest conservatives may be predisposed against intellectual and emotional independence and maturity.

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How to spot a baby conservative
KID POLITICS | Whiny children, claims a new study, tend to grow up rigid and traditional. Future liberals, on the other hand …
Mar. 19, 2006. 10:45 AM
KURT KLEINER
SPECIAL TO THE STAR

Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, and was always running to the teacher with complaints?

Chances are he grew up to be a conservative.

The confident, resilient, self-reliant kids mostly grew up to be liberals.

The study from the Journal of Research Into Personality isn’t going to make the UC Berkeley professor who published it any friends on the right. Similar conclusions a few years ago from another academic saw him excoriated on right-wing blogs, and even led to a Congressional investigation into his research funding.

Similarly, in 2003 John T. Jost of Stanford and colleagues reviewed 44 years worth of studies into the psychology of conservatism, and concluded that people who are dogmatic, fearful, intolerant of ambiguity and uncertainty, and who crave order and structure are more likely to gravitate to conservatism.
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buffman31…

They are not YOUR terms, and the fact that you consider Savage an authoritative source only supports the studies’ findings.
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donkeykong1122 –

Eisenhower also was the one who warned America about the Military-Industrial Complex. The Bush administration is what he was talking about. Eisenhower was too smart to be a Republican in 2006.

I don’t think they’re born. But they’re conditioned to be resentful, pusillanimous, and mean-spirited by overly harsh parenting.