Conservatism is a mental defect. Can it be treated?

[magicguido]

[jaxexpat]

1. Warning, illuminating discussion. Some factual concepts discussed may be painfully undeniable.

[Warpy]

2. Whiny, clingy kids grow up to be conservative

The study was tiny, only 95 children, but they were followed for a couple of decades. Here is the scoop from NPR, the original articles have long since been buried somewhere:

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5293039

I makes a lot of sense, kids who cried their eyes out when Mom left them at kindergarten were afraid of new things. I wasn't and I admit I was a little glad to see her retreating backside, even if the kindergarten was presided over by a terrifying penguin who said she was there to teach us about god.

I could read but my writing needed a lot of help, so I was tasked with printing pages and pages of alphabets, upper and lower case. I was lucky, I got sprung from there in the spring and the next school was a public school.

[BlueSky3]

3. Interesting.

I've often thought that conservatives tend to be frightened people, needing more protections in their lives than liberals. But a lot of the generalities in the video paint character traits with too broad a brush for me. People are complex, even the conservative ones.

[LT Barclay]

4. I'm still betting on neo-nicotinic pesticides.

Nicotine binds to receptors in the brain that release dopamine and seratonin (calming neurotransmitters).
If those pesticides are binding to the sites, but not stimulating the release of the dopamine and seratonin, then I hypothesize that the person would constantly be irritable like a person just starting to quit smoking.
I need Dr. Fauci's e-mail!!!