I Should Get a Special Parking Place

Conservatism is a psychological disability. It's true, cause I read it on Yahoo news.

So an assistant professor of psychology at NYU who has spent the last few years dedicated to the study of prejudice and the neurology of guilt and racism has hooked a whole 43 people up to electrodes in order to study their brains during a simulated driving test. From this small study the conclusion has been reached that while liberals are adaptable and flexible towards different ways of thinking, conservatives are neurologically stunted and have only habitual reactions to new situations. The article closes with the suggestion that with "experience", "rigid" conservatives' neurology can change and they can overcome their disability and grow into good "nimble-minded" liberal progressives. I mean, you'd be crazy to want it the other way around. Who would want to move from being an enlightened liberal to become a stunted and ignorant conservative.

Nature Neuroscience published the study, and the MSM ate it up. In this study of 43 people, half the American population is painted as intolerant to differences and unable to adapt to change, while hanging on desperately to old ideals. The irony is the left-wing political myopia of the MSM and Nature Neuroscience that without question buy this sort of liberal supremacist swill and call it science. Do I detect the very kind of prejudice here that the "tolerant" and "freedom-loving" left claims to abhor?

Based upon my own scientific study, my hypothesis is that liberal elite will soon declare conservatism as political insanity and send us off to a soviet style Gulag for shock treatments and insulin therapy. Maybe this hypothesis is born of a fear of people who think differently. Perhaps I need to find a few subjects and hook them up to EEG's and put them through a driving test just to be sure.

See my post on conservatives and dreams for more psychological enlightenment.

Update: Another study of conservative retardation from yesterday. Via Ace o' Spades.

Update 2: It's a different part of the study I'm referencing.