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Indenturedebtor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 02:01 PM Original message |
Voting Republican may be a survival response |
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mcctatas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 02:03 PM Response to Original message |
1. Some say survival response.... |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 02:07 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. While Republicans are dominated by their reptilian brain, Democrats don't just allow their higher |
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dbonds (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 02:11 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Demonizing the reptilian brain... |
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Alcibiades (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 03:13 PM Response to Reply #7 |
19. Monsters from the Id |
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dbonds (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 02:08 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Wild animals react similarly. |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 02:11 AM Response to Reply #1 |
25. Sounds like Democrats are more confident. |
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cdb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 02:03 PM Response to Original message |
2. Science? Repugs don't like science and facts and stuff... n/t |
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Indenturedebtor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 02:07 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Yeah read some of the responses on that thread hahaha |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 02:03 PM Response to Original message |
3. It's the reptilian brain. Republicans allow that basal part of our Self to dominate rather |
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maxsolomon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 02:12 PM Response to Original message |
8. but Palin did not blink! |
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Indenturedebtor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 02:18 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. No sorry, she's actually not human |
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Chiyo-chichi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 02:18 PM Response to Original message |
10. I completely agree that this has a basis in biology. |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 02:19 PM Response to Original message |
11. Survival response?? |
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Indenturedebtor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 02:28 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Deathwish is right. Usually people don't do the right thing when they're terrified |
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Crunchy Frog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
13. I'm the most chicken person that you will probably ever meet. |
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CatholicEdHead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
14. Well many are still fighting the USSR in their own way |
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Indenturedebtor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 02:39 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. It's got to be some kind of enemy all the time for these people |
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nolabels (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 02:48 PM Response to Original message |
16. Friends don't let their friends vote republican |
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yodermon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 03:07 PM Response to Original message |
17. Republicans were more likely to have been abused as children, which |
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Indenturedebtor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 03:28 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. Great and timely post - this same mechanism is strongly implicated in PTSD as well |
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Jamastiene (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 03:35 PM Response to Reply #17 |
23. That makes sense. |
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pipi_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
18. Well they're either wrong, or |
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freeplessinseattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 06:50 PM Response to Reply #18 |
24. no worries, it's not a rule, just a tendency & coping response |
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Alcibiades (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 03:16 PM Response to Original message |
20. I don't think it's fear, per se, but anxiety |
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Indenturedebtor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-18-08 03:30 PM Response to Original message |
22. Why was this moved from LBN? I don't understand? n/t |
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4_TN_TITANS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-19-08 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
26. giant festering puss filled quivering odious *Censored* |
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