[Doofy]

Scientists find the gene that gives people liberal views | Mail Online

Liberals may owe their political outlook to their genes, according to new research.

Scientists have discovered that our views on life are not just affected by social factors but also by the presence of a dopamine receptor gene called DRD4.

The study, University of California, San Diego, and Harvard University, is the first research to link a specific gene to certain political views.

Appearing in the latest edition of The Journal of Politics published by Cambridge University Press, the research focused on 2,000 subjects.

By matching genetic information with maps of the subjects' social networks, the researchers were able to show that people with a specific variant of the DRD4 gene were more likely to be liberal as adults, but only if they had an active social life as teenagers.

Dopamine is a neurotransmitter affecting brain processes that control movement, emotional response, and the ability to experience pleasure and pain.

Previous research has identified a connection between a variant of this gene and novelty-seeking behaviour, which has in turn been associated with personality traits related to political liberalism.

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[The Final Dakar]

Wouldn't genetically flawed have been the more sensical troll?

[Doofy]

If I wasn't drunk, yes.

[The Final Dakar]

*slow clap*

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by The Final Dakar 

*slow clap*

You'd probably be able to clap faster if your genes worked properly.

[ort888]

Liberalism is a CHOICE!

[Chongo]

There is this book.

[OAW]

By matching genetic information with maps of the subjects' social networks, the researchers were able to show that people with a specific variant of the DRD4 gene were more likely to be liberal as adults, but only if they had an active social life as teenagers.

Dopamine is a neurotransmitter affecting brain processes that control movement, emotional response, and the ability to experience pleasure and pain.

Previous research has identified a connection between a variant of this gene and novelty-seeking behaviour, which has in turn been associated with personality traits related to political liberalism.

Lead researcher James H. Fowler of UC San Diego and his colleagues believe that people with the novelty-seeking gene variant would be more interested in learning about their friends' points of view.

As a consequence, people with this genetic predisposition who have a greater-than-average number of friends would be exposed to a wider variety of social norms and lifestyles, which might make them more liberal than average.

Or perhaps conservatives are people with a genetic predisposition for being a stick-in-the-mud and have no life?

OAW

[Doofy]

Now we know that it's a genetic trait, we can probably start screening for it so those with the defective genes can be barred from running for office.

[The Final Dakar]

Originally Posted by Chongo 

There is this book.
http://militantlibertarian.org/wp-co...taldisease.jpg

Well, if anyone would know about being crazy, it'd be Michael Savage.

[Doofy]

This is actually a bit of an eye-opener for me. I was certain that liberalism was a social disease. Like chlamydia and herpes.
Perhaps it is. Perhaps the genetic damage is caused by the disease (we know that cancer is a virus and causes genetic damage, so...).

[The Final Dakar]

No, conservatism is clearly the social disease. That's how religion propagates.

[Chongo]

Originally Posted by The Final Dakar 

Well, if anyone would know about being crazy, it'd be Michael Savage.

Alex Jones and his friends as well.

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by The Final Dakar 

No, conservatism is clearly the social disease. That's how religion propagates.

I must be drunk. If I wasn't drunk, your comebacks would probably be funnier.

[The Final Dakar]

Originally Posted by Chongo 

Alex Jones and his friends as well.

Who the **** is Alex Jones?

[Chongo]

Originally Posted by The Final Dakar 

Who the **** is Alex Jones?

Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!
Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com

[The Final Dakar]

Not ringing a bell.

[Chongo]

He's behind "Loose Change" AKA 9/11 was an inside job .......
YouTube - 911 Loose Change (full-length)

[The Final Dakar]

Originally Posted by Doofy 

I must be drunk. If I wasn't drunk, your comebacks would probably be funnier.

You must be drunk, because you usually don't try this hard hoping to make me feel butthurt.

[The Final Dakar]

Originally Posted by Chongo 

He's behind "Loose Change" AKA 9/11 was an inside job.
YouTube - 911 Loose Change (full-length)

Well, that is another level of crazy.

[Big Mac]

I always knew it! Well, at least we now know that leftist stupidity is deterministic at least in part, so we can't treat them as harshly. They suffer from a genetic disorder. I have a lot more pity for them now.

Originally Posted by The Final Dakar 

No, conservatism is clearly the social disease. That's how religion propagates.

Leftism and atheism don't propagate socially?

[sek929]

"You see, if I freeze frame on this blurry video and zoom in 10x you can plainly see George W Bush piloting the first 747."

[Uncle Skeleton]

I guess this would explain why conservatives reject evolution: if they don't get to evolve then nobody does!

[KittyKat]

This mentally deficient Lib thinks that government seats should be held by the movers and shakers, not by people with their thumbs up their backsides nagging and finger pointing. I call these latter ones chit stirrers without a spoon.

[besson3c]

Arf arf!

[hyteckit]

The positive side effect of those with the 'liberal gene' is that they are much more intelligent than those without the gene.

They are much more curious about the world and exploring it. They tend to be more open-minded and tend to form less conventional political viewpoints as adults.

Those without the 'liberal gene' are less curious. They rather just be force feed than actually learn and analyze. They lack curiously. They are more like lemmings following what they have been told without putting much thought into it.

[hyteckit]

While liberals have the DRD4 gene, conservatives have the R2D2 gene.

This gene limits conservatives to utter only a few audible sounds. Beep Boop Guns, Beep Boop God, Beep Boop Obama, Beep Boop Muslim.

[besson3c]

That'll show em! This thread is *really* going someplace now!

[KittyKat]

I like your wind up Hyteckit. Now throw the ball. I must be at the world series or are you guys evolving as we speak? No time to stay and spin. I have a world to save. More calls to make to get out the vote in these last few days. I enjoy checking out what gets posted here. VERY interesting people.

[ebuddy]

Originally Posted by hyteckit 

The positive side effect of those with the 'liberal gene' is that they are much more intelligent than those without the gene.

They are much more curious about the world and exploring it. They tend to be more open-minded and tend to form less conventional political viewpoints as adults.

Those without the 'liberal gene' are less curious. They rather just be force feed than actually learn and analyze. They lack curiously. They are more like lemmings following what they have been told without putting much thought into it.

I mean, if this had come from ANYONE else...

[ebuddy]

Originally Posted by hyteckit 

While liberals have the DRD4 gene, conservatives have the R2D2 gene.

This gene limits conservatives to utter only a few audible sounds. Beep Boop Guns, Beep Boop God, Beep Boop Obama, Beep Boop Muslim.

As opposed to Beep Boop Palin, Beep Boop Beck, Beep Boop Muslim, Beep Boop Christians, Beep Boop FOX NEWS!!!

[ebuddy]

Originally Posted by Big Mac 

Leftism and atheism don't propagate socially?

No, sexually. To Doofy's point - like chlamydia.

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by hyteckit 

The positive side effect of those with the 'liberal gene' is that they are much more intelligent than those without the gene.

They are much more curious about the world and exploring it. They tend to be more open-minded and tend to form less conventional political viewpoints as adults.

Those without the 'liberal gene' are less curious. They rather just be force feed than actually learn and analyze. They lack curiously. They are more like lemmings following what they have been told without putting much thought into it.

No. Here's how it really is:

Conservatives are equally curious and don't lack "curiously" [sic] at all. But at some point in their learning they actually figure out that certain things are, in fact, harmful to a society and to people's freedoms.

Libs have "curiously" [sic], but never learn. Thus they're doomed to forever f up.

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by ebuddy 

No, sexually. To Doofy's point - like chlamydia.

Not proper sex though. Dirty, deviant sex with ugly people (i.e. other libs).

[Buckaroo]

I wish there was pill for that.

[Snow-i]

God Willing

[besson3c]

asdfadsf

[Snow-i]

Aww,

Bess is apparently pounding his keyboard in frustration. Did we activate your gene and trigger a libisode?

[besson3c]

No, I just came to realize that the soap I was chewing on tasted like crap.

(I also made a naughty remark about circle jerking that probably would have not gone over well)

[BadKosh]

Originally Posted by hyteckit 

The positive side effect of those with the 'liberal gene' is that they are much more intelligent than those without the gene.

Then why can't they learn from past mistakes?

Originally Posted by hyteckit 

They are much more curious about the world and exploring it. They tend to be more open-minded and tend to form less conventional political viewpoints as adults.

Radical, Leftist, Marxist are all like liberals.

Originally Posted by hyteckit 

Those without the 'liberal gene' are less curious. They rather just be force feed than actually learn and analyze. They lack curiously. They are more like lemmings following what they have been told without putting much thought into it.

They are less likely to fall for BS disguised as science, or the social engineering, and they have longer attention spans, and aren't so easily fooled by entertainers/political hacks trying to spew lies as if they were facts.

[besson3c]

Learning from past mistakes, like voting for Republicans again after the ever-so-productive Bush years?


Snap! See, ol' besson3c can come up with da one-liners too!

[Snow-i]

Originally Posted by besson3c 

Learning from past mistakes, like voting for Republicans again after the ever-so-productive Bush years?


Snap! See, ol' besson3c can come up with da one-liners too!

Nah, we wanna vote for conservatives, not republicans.

[besson3c]

Conservatives... that word starts with CON! CONservatives!!

"Government doesn't work, vote for me and I'll see to it that it stays that way!"

The party of nope!!11


Take that!

Besson3c FTW, thread over.

[Doofy]

You're not really disproving the "libs are mental" theory here, are you Bess?

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by Doofy 

You're not really disproving the "libs are mental" theory here, are you Bess?

Yes, I am... I have seen studies that show that liberals are smarter than conservatives, and have made the generalization myself that conservatives don't like change, have heard people make the argument about how there is no diversity in the party, how mentally deficient these people are and those people... Blah blah blah. Then I read something about a Democrat tea party nazi dude and I think **** it, people in general are mental.

You can spin your tires all day trying to cling to one study or another, trying desperately to make sweeping generalizations, etc. but at the end of the day people in general will do their jobs and disappoint, and whatever those stereotypes are about liberals being crunchy emotional hippy peace loving anti-capitalist ivory tower intellectuals or conservatives being war-mongering white Christian whatever blah blah blah don't apply to me anyway, so **** it. There is likely a significant population of certain demographics that skew these sorts of studies one way or another, but whatever...

Then, of course, we can apply these theories to the politicians we have and point fingers when somebody on one side does something stupid that justifies the mentally deficient label, only for then shortly thereafter for somebody on the other side to do something just as stupid. It's a pointless exercise and endless cycle.

People are mentally deficient. That is the only, real, practical, actionable conclusion here...

[hyteckit]

Originally Posted by BadKosh 

Then why can't they learn from past mistakes?

Radical, Leftist, Marxist are all like liberals.

Beep Boop Leftist, Beep Boop Marxist.

[olePigeon]

Originally Posted by Snow-i 

Nah, we wanna vote for conservatives, not republicans.

Why would you want to vote a Muslim terrorist as President?

[CreepDogg]

Wait, liberals are the ones that HAVE the gene? Wouldn't that, by definition, make the ones that don't have the gene 'deficient'?

[Snow-i]

Originally Posted by olePigeon 

Why would you want to vote a Muslim terrorist as President?

That gene finally getting to you?

What in the hell are you talking about?

[ebuddy]

Originally Posted by besson3c 

Learning from past mistakes, like voting for Republicans again after the ever-so-productive Bush years?

Snap! See, ol' besson3c can come up with da one-liners too!

Well... in the interest of brevity you might want to consider this approach. It certainly saved me a lot of time.