a paper entitled "Nursery school personality and political orientation two decades later" recently published in the Journal of Research in Personality claims that one's propensity toward liberalism or conservatism can be established in nursery school. Jack Block, professor emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley (where else?), studied some 100 subjects through their teachers' assessments in nursery school to adulthood with follow-up interviews to determine the political leanings of his subjects. Block claims that those children who were deemed to be open, assertive, self-confident, curious, bright and talkative grew up to become left-leaning adults, while those who were rated by their nursery school teachers to be indecisive, vacillating, shy, fearful, easily victimized and anxious ultimately grew up to become more right-leaning or conservative.
It's not surprising that a study such as this would come out of the Berkeley campus, as it professes clear proof that liberals are good people while conservatives are essentially bad.
I do not wish to take issue with Prof. Block's findings, as I have not seen the research in its entirety and I question Block's methodology in using a mere 100-some subjects to be able to make a proclamation of such magnitude.
It would appear there is no end to the narcissistic love-fest that goes on among those who have adopted a liberal ideology, ensuring at every step of the way that they are indeed "the chosen", the ones with all the right answers. However, some of the contradictions inherent in liberalism make it difficult for those of us who are "indecisive, vacillating, shy, fearful, easily victimized and anxious" to be able to swallow their blather.
Liberals think racial or ethnic profiling is reprehensible, except when the practice provides some political expediency as in their opposition to the Dubai Ports World deal. In such cases profiling is perfectly acceptable. another instance where profiling is not only acceptable, but also preferable, is in identifying those who disagree with them in terms of "hairy knuckles dragging along the ground while eating a banana". What follows then is some reference to what they are: redneck, fundamentalist Christian, neo-con, Zionist, homophobe, sexist, etc.
Liberals are great defenders of human life, holding it sacred, even when one is defending one's own life against a murderous foe. But they'll suck a baby that's nearly brought to full term out of the womb in a New York minute, as a woman's right to control over her body trumps that of the sanctity of life.
Like many glib salespeople, liberals tend to ask people to do as they say not as they do. Barbra Streisand is really concerned about the environment, but that doesn't stop her from taking a gas-guzzling, fume-spewing private jet anywhere she may want to go. Bill Clinton proclaims that the Dubai Ports World deal would threaten the security of the United States, but doesn't tell anyone that Dubai Ports World has hired him as a lobbyist to make the deal work. Jimmy Carter talks about how much he cares about human rights, yet seems to be chummy with many of the world's worst dictators, including Fidel Castro. We should have affirmative action programs that give preference in hiring to african americans, except when those african americans happen to be conservative. Then it's okay to make racial slurs as in Condoleezza Rice, Justice Clarence Thomas or Judge Janis Rogers Brown. and so it goes.
This is not to say that there are no contradictions among conservatives, there are plenty. They just don't seem as glaring as those one finds among liberals.
Back to Prof. Block's research: Let's say he's right and the kids in the nursery school he studied all turned out to be true to form. The bright, happy "good" children all became liberals, while the fearful, closed "bad" children all became conservatives. Does this mean one can detect the sociopathic traits that make up liberals in early childhood?
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