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mwb970

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9. I wonder why some of us immediately recognize psycho talk

Reply to Snarkoleptic (Reply #5)

Mon Feb 27, 2012, 01:00 PM

Feb 2012

whereas others, the ones who become conservatives, never DO recognize it. Is there an "insight gene" that they are missing? Could those enlarged amygdalas be crowding out more sophisticated regions of their brains?

I could see right through Reagan too but people where I worked were in love with him.

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