Researchers Claim To Be Able To Determine Political Leaning By How Messy You Are 592
According to a study to be published in The Journal of Political Psychology, you can tell someone's political affiliation by looking at the condition of their offices and bedrooms. Conservatives tend to be neat and liberals love a mess. Researchers found that the bedrooms and offices of liberals tend to be colorful and full of books about travel, ethnicity, feminism and music, along with music CDs covering folk, classic and modern rock, as well as art supplies, movie tickets and travel memorabilia. Their conservative contemporaries, on the other hand, tend to surround themselves with calendars, postage stamps, laundry baskets, irons and sewing materials. Their bedrooms and offices are well lit and decorated with sports paraphernalia and flags — especially American ones. Sam Gosling, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, says these room cues are "behavioral residue." The findings are just the latest in a series of recent attempts to unearth politics in personality, the brain and DNA. I, for one, support a woman's right to clean.
Conservative tend to scare easier (Score:5, Informative)
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http://www.lafn.org/gvdc/Natl_Debt_Chart.html [lafn.org]
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Yeah I've seen that too.
Well I guess I should have been more specific. Republicans preach to a fiscally conservative ideology.
What happens when republican politicians get in power is another matter entirely.
Also, That only puts the president's party affiliation and not who is in control of the house/senate. Or are you implying correlation->causation? Because last I checked, the house was supposed to control the money.
And the economic boom during clinton would have helped any president. He was lucky. Though I guess I should congratulate him on not fucking up the place while he was...fucking in the place.
What party had the house majority again when they shutdown the government over the budget?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_shutdown_of_1995 [wikipedia.org]
Re:American libertarians (Score:4, Informative)
Outside the US, Libertarianism is a common term for Anarchism in general. When someone outside the US uses the term 'Libertarian' they mean something very different from what someone in the US means. Most anarchists outside the US are not of the capitalist/free market/individualist anarchist variety, they are left anarchists.
All anarchists, social and individualist, believe that government should be a simple system that only deals with harm. That is not the cause of the schism, that is the root of all anarchism. The schism is over two issues, first, what is property, and second, what is harm? Individualist anarchists advocate strong individual property rights and lax definitions of harm. By lax I mean, me using economic force to subjugate you is not harming you, it is helping you in individualist anarchist's eyes. If I weren't there to subjugate you financially, what would you eat? Social anarchists believe in democratic control of the means of production, and strict definitions of harm. We believe that people have a right to be free from financial subjugation, and that the only fair way to control the world's resources is through democratic control. One person or group asserting ownership of a natural resource amounts to stealing it from the rest of us.