Liberals need to stop sneering at people

[Sava]

Boshko... that was great.

[Pax]

Originally posted by JohnT
Oops... looks like it got deleted. My apologies.

According to the thread, the boards pessimists are:

UberKrux
civman2000
Tripledoc
Osweld
Oncle Boris
Odin
Monkspider
Spiffor
Dissident
Shi (not a Lefty, but then, very few things are 100%).
Verres
Sava

Optimists:
Urban Ranger (not a Righty, but then, very few things are 100%).
Ogie Oglethorpe
JohnT
Drogue
Boshko

Again, we didn't vote in droves... probably that "we've got better things to do" thing again.

However, the trend is unmistakable. Lefties tend to be pessimistic, Righties tend to be optimistic. The question now is, which came first: the attitude or the ideology? My guess would be the attitude.

The problem here is that this is not the time for optimism. This is the time for realism. You can't look over the globe and say things will just magically get better. There has got to be a change. A plan. I believe that things could have gotten better but with the choices that the American people have made, I can only hope that things will be better. I have no cause for optimism at this time.

[Dis]

Originally posted by JohnT
Oops... looks like it got deleted. My apologies.

According to the thread, the boards pessimists are:

UberKrux
civman2000
Tripledoc
Osweld
Oncle Boris
Odin
Monkspider
Spiffor
Dissident
Shi (not a Lefty, but then, very few things are 100%).
Verres
Sava

Optimists:
Urban Ranger (not a Righty, but then, very few things are 100%).
Ogie Oglethorpe
JohnT
Drogue
Boshko

Again, we didn't vote in droves... probably that "we've got better things to do" thing again.

However, the trend is unmistakable. Lefties tend to be pessimistic, Righties tend to be optimistic. The question now is, which came first: the attitude or the ideology? My guess would be the attitude.

*clears throat*

I'm not a lefty. I voted republican every presidential election except for this one.

[Bosh]

I don't get a "not a righty" disclaimer?
*cries*

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Sava


wow, what a scientific study you did there!

It's neither scientific nor a study. What it is, however, is a listing of people who voluntarily answered the question of whether they are an optimist or a pessimist.

But let me quote avowed leftist monkspider from that thread:

What's with all the commie pessimists? Libertarian pessimists I can understand. But we Commies are supposed to be the flag-bearers of peace, love and brotherhood. Get with the program, you guys.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Boshko
I don't get a "not a righty" disclaimer?
*cries*

I can make you one, if you wish.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Ned
Yeah. I really love living in my trailer parked out here in the mountains.

(note the )

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Agathon I pointed out that political conservatism tends to be psychologically motivated

How could something not be psychologically motivated?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Ming
JohnT is correct... anybody that is smart can look at these forums and see that it is the "liberals" who are resorting to insults/hate... The you disagree with me so you are ignorant attitude is coming more from the "open minded" liberals than the conservatives...

Which is of course why there are half a dozen open right-wing bigots on this board while only one I can think of on the left...

And that's just bigots. If you're talking civility, the numbers get worse.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by General Ludd
Rightists and their idealist utopian fantasies.

Marx was a rightist?

[Agathon]

How could something not be psychologically motivated?

Rational motivations versus non-rational.

e.g. I believe in evolution because the evidence supports it versus I believe in God because I am scared of dying.

[Kuciwalker]

It's still psychology.

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Ned


Dems are divided between the rank and file and the elites. Demographic polls seem to illustrate this by showing increasing affiliation with the Republican party by wealth until one gets to post graduate types, who then are predominately Democrats.

Interesting info.

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
It's still psychology.

I'm affraid you're right, but Agathon's point stands. There's a world of difference between acting out of respect towards reason and acting out of fear of death, etc.

[Kuciwalker]

The word he's looking for is "pathologically", I believe, not "psychologically".