Conservatives are Crazy and Dangerous

In the previous post I let the Wingers speak for themselves. However, there is also quite a lot of psychological research done and published. An encyclopedic review of such research is here:

Political_Conservatism_as_Motivated_Social_Cognition
http://faculty-gsb.stanford.edu/Jost/_private/Political_Conservatism_as_Motivated_Social_Cognition.pdf


A brief summary. These things are strongly correlated (remember that correlation does not mean causation):

• 
  male sex
  
• 
  Conservative politics
• 
  adherence to right-wing ideology
• 
  homophobia
• 
  authoritarianism
• 
  cognitive rigidity
• 
  opposition to gender equality
• 
  traditional gender-role orientation
• 
  racism
• 
  variety of personal and interpersonal difficulties
• 
  intolerance to ambiguity
• 
  lack of intimacy in friendships with other men
• 
  mysogyny
• 
  detesting femininity in men
• 
  exclusive masculine identity
• 
  greater rigidity and conflict in attempts to adhere to male gender norms
• 
  violence towards gays
• 
  arousal by gay male sex images
• 
  paranoia
• 
  chronic anxiety about personal achievement, competence, failure, and career and financial success
• 
  sexual coersion
• 
  hostility towards women
• 
  impaired intimacy
• 
  negative attitudes towards help seeking
• 
  low self-esteem
• 
  marital dissatisfaction
• 
  depression
• 
  authoritarian personality style
• 
  general psycholigical distress
• 
  psychotic thinking
• 
  obsessive-compulsive behavior
• 
  dogmatism
• 
  perception of threat by social change and instability
• 
  acceptance of relationships of domination between social groups
• 
  decreased cognitive complexity
• 
  higher need for order and structure
  

When you put together all this, the Wingers' own words from the previous post, and everything else I wrote on this blog before, there are some clear conclusions:

There is no equivalency - Conservatism is Bad and Liberalism is Good. There is no middle ground. Period.

Conservatives are too emotionally and intellectually deranged to be talked to. They perceive this as a life-and-death struggle. Thus, reaching out to them is not just pointless, it is suicidal. We have to take them on with full force.

Although the above are all correlations, we can guess at the direction of causation. As conservative ideology is a much more abstract idea than gender identity, appearing later in an individual's development, it is much more likely that femiphobia causes conservatism than the other way round. As both femiphobia and conservatism are a result of Dobsonian Strict-father childrearing practice, i.e., it is inherited from one generation to the next via familial upbringing, the essential component in the fight against conservatism is to prevent them from raising their own kids in their own way.

Update:
A NYC escort writes on her experiences with Republican clients during the RNC, read as well the comments, including one about an escort who never takes Republicans as "....invariably they were fat, BAD about paying and almost all of them had a kink too wierd to deal with. Usually the 'mommy spank, beat me, **** me' kind- to the extreme. ":

http://www.nyhotties.com/archives/2004/09/reflections_on.html