I vote Republican because I hope to one day be a blonde.

What subby Obvious tag on vacat... Oh...

Vincent Hanna: Master William Pitt the Even Younger, no votes, are you disappointed?

Pitt the Even Younger: Yes, I'm horrified! I smeared my opponents, bribed the press to be on my side, and threatened to torture the electorate if we lost! I fail to see what more a decent politician could have done!

For all the unfounded claims of hippies spitting on Vietnam vets, spitting is much more common among the right wingers.

They do it when something so disgusts them that they have to get the taste out of their mouth and put it back where it belongs.

Jake Havechek: Vincent Hanna: Master William Pitt the Even Younger, no votes, are you disappointed?

Pitt the Even Younger: Yes, I'm horrified! I smeared my opponents, bribed the press to be on my side, and threatened to torture the electorate if we lost! I fail to see what more a decent politician could have done!

Hard to see how such a cunning plan could have failed.

"The proper interpretation of the findings (in the current study) is not that biology causes politics or that politics causes biology," the authors write, "but that certain political orientations at some unspecified point become housed in our biology, with meaningful political consequences."

My own crackpot theory states it a little differently -- given any population with a healthy distribution of individuals with all these varying reactions to certain stimuli as discussed in tfa, then political organizations, parties, factions, schools of thought etc. are emergent properties of the system, more or less.

subconscious predispositions ... politics of involuntary physiology ...

Ooo -- I have a soundbitey formulation that I kinda like for these guys -- 'politics of pet peeves'

"After all, if political differences are traceable in part to the fact that people vary in the way they physically experience the world ..."

Well, that certainly explains why, no matter who we are, our opponents often seem like they're from a different universe...

Anyway, come to think of it -- as much as I love reading articles like these that are using empirical data to explain all this, didn't Erich Fromm kinda plough this same ground a long time ago?? Somebody refresh my memory, if you could. Been a while since I read him, and I'm a layman.

Roger Ailes takes a dump on your television screen and people use his poop as febreeze in their homes, to wash out that commie stink.

//too tired to provide thoughtful commentary where none is actually needed