Fox News Study Confirms a Stupid Education Makes you Liberal

Thanks Archer! I wish you a very Merry Christmas and many blessings in the New Year!

archer wrote: makes sense to me, the more educated you are the more likely you are to ferret out the truth of issues, and if you are a seeker of truth, rather than fiction, you will be a liberal.

Nice try. Hardly think that is a valid deduction. I hardly consider myself a liberal, but most certainly a seeker of truth. Nothing with political focus represents truth. I do conclude, that most who have only a college degree and no experience lack critical thinking ability. That conclusion stems from social interactions over a period of 30 years. Maturity does much to foster critical thinking and in most cases, I submit, you will find that older people move towards being conservative rather than being liberal. One wonders why that should be?
Rockdoc Franz, Ph.D.

Rockdoc Franz wrote:

archer wrote: makes sense to me, the more educated you are the more likely you are to ferret out the truth of issues, and if you are a seeker of truth, rather than fiction, you will be a liberal.

Nice try. Hardly think that is a valid deduction. I hardly consider myself a liberal, but most certainly a seeker of truth. Nothing with political focus represents truth. I do conclude, that most who have only a college degree and no experience lack critical thinking ability. That conclusion stems from social interactions over a period of 30 years. Maturity does much to foster critical thinking and in most cases, I submit, you will find that older people move towards being conservative rather than being liberal. One wonders why that should be?
Rockdoc Franz, Ph.D.

perhaps then I am the exception to your rule? The older i get, and I'm old enough for medicare, the more liberal my thinking at least on social issues. I have always been conservative on fiscal issues.

archer wrote: The older i get, and I'm old enough for medicare, the more liberal my thinking at least on social issues. I have always been conservative on fiscal issues.

That's because it's easier to spend other people's money.

“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”
Winston Churchill

Lots of brainless folks out there I guess.....

I'll have to apologize- I did not mean to make fun of anyones worthless education - that was just wrong of me.

Rockdoc Franz wrote:

archer wrote: makes sense to me, the more educated you are the more likely you are to ferret out the truth of issues, and if you are a seeker of truth, rather than fiction, you will be a liberal.

Nice try. Hardly think that is a valid deduction. I hardly consider myself a liberal, but most certainly a seeker of truth. Nothing with political focus represents truth. I do conclude, that most who have only a college degree and no experience lack critical thinking ability. That conclusion stems from social interactions over a period of 30 years. Maturity does much to foster critical thinking and in most cases, I submit, you will find that older people move towards being conservative rather than being liberal. One wonders why that should be?
Rockdoc Franz, Ph.D.

Here's another example (me) of someone who is getting more liberal as they get older.

I also get more liberal as I get older. As a kid I was a Young Republican. It turns out this isn't unusual.

Aging doesn't mean growing more conservative: study

NEW YORK | Thu Mar 6, 2008 1:25pm EST

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Contrary to common belief, aging seems to make a person more liberal and tolerant, not more conservative or rigid, according to a new study.

Researchers at the University of Vermont and Pennsylvania State University found that people over the age of 60 become more liberal, more quickly as they age compared to younger people.

"We still hold these age stereotypes about older people becoming more rigid in their thinking or becoming more conservative," said Nick Danigelis, a professor of sociology in Vermont who headed the research team.

"It's a false stereotype, and in fact, the evidence suggests that older people in some cases appear to be moving at a more rapid rate towards a liberal position than younger people."

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0560526320080306

It does appear that liberals and conservatives react differently to threats-

Conservatives Scare More Easily Than Liberals, Say Scientists

* By Brandon Keim Email Author
* September 18, 2008

Deep-seated political differences aren’t simply moral and intellectual: They’re also biological.

In reflex tests of 46 political partisans, psychologists found that conservatives were more likely than liberals to be shocked by sudden threats.

Accompanying the physiological differences were deep differences on hot-button political issues: military expansion, the Iraq war, gun control, capital punishment, the Patriot act, warrantless searches, foreign aid, abortion rights, gay marriage, premarital sex and pornography.

"People are experiencing the world, experiencing threat, differently," said University of Nebraska political scientist John Hibbing. "We have very different physiological orientations."

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/ ... ngering-h/

hmmmm...that ought to scare the conservatives as our population ages, and seniors become a larger percentage of the population. I'm sure they will spin the results, lets sit back and enjoy the show.

:pop

archer wrote:

Rockdoc Franz wrote:

archer wrote: makes sense to me, the more educated you are the more likely you are to ferret out the truth of issues, and if you are a seeker of truth, rather than fiction, you will be a liberal.

Nice try. Hardly think that is a valid deduction. I hardly consider myself a liberal, but most certainly a seeker of truth. Nothing with political focus represents truth. I do conclude, that most who have only a college degree and no experience lack critical thinking ability. That conclusion stems from social interactions over a period of 30 years. Maturity does much to foster critical thinking and in most cases, I submit, you will find that older people move towards being conservative rather than being liberal. One wonders why that should be?
Rockdoc Franz, Ph.D.

perhaps then I am the exception to your rule? The older i get, and I'm old enough for medicare, the more liberal my thinking at least on social issues. I have always been conservative on fiscal issues.

There are always exceptions to the rule. If it was not for that, then the world would become boring. Nothing wrong with being different or seeing things in a different way.

Rockdoc Franz wrote: There are always exceptions to the rule. If it was not for that, then the world would become boring. Nothing wrong with being different or seeing things in a different way.

hmmmmm...if one is to believe the quotes in ckm8's post, I am more part of the mainstream of seniors than the exception. Interesting.