How Are Conservative And Liberal Brains Different?

Conservatives and liberals disagree on many topics in the world of politics. Are their brains wired differently? Tara takes a look at some new research showing the differences between the brains of the political parties!

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[douglasivey]

Fun fact George Washington in his farewell address warned that someday political parties would tear the nation apart. Looks like he was right again

[Greyz]

don't follow a party. make your own decisions about things

[blah]

I believe Washington mentioned something about political parties would be our downfall. Was he wrong?

[EdmacZ]

Conservative: "I don't agree with what you say, but I will fight for your right to say it."


Liberal: "I don't agree with what you say, therefore not only are you not allowed to say it, but I will do everything in my power to make sure you never speak again. My feelings take prescedence over your rights.”

[Tommy-dzdo]

One big difference between liberal as and conservatives is the liberals are 10 times more sensitive to criticism and think with there emotions rather then reality and facts.

[patricksinclair]

I have two separate YouTube accounts. One I use to watch conservative leaning videos and one I use to watch Liberal leaning videos. This then effects what videos I get suggested by each. It is remarkable how both sides see the same issues completely opposite. This little experiment of mine has honestly made me almost lose all trust in any mainstream news outlets, Fox News, CNN, NBC, etc.

[naughtyskywalker]

*In my opinion, *





Whether you are a Conservative or Liberal

1. Learn to be respectful

2. Give empirical evidence to your arguments

3. Scary part is, what really goes on in the oval office, what the media is telling us and what we believe in, are not always coherent. Our opinions and believes dont mean jack shit to politicians. And there's nothing we can do about it.

4. But it's still fun to be expressive. I had a gf once who was a hardcore, lefty, sjw hipster. I pretended that I lean toward the right just to piss her off in our political debates and have angry sex later on.

5. May the force be with you all.

[jeff-freehoke]

This videos gets a lot of stuff wrong. Plus, it was mainly just talking about conservative brains... sure you could say that liberal brains are simply the opposite, but the video definitely used the word "conservative" 10x more than "liberal."

[davesecx]

It is impossible to have serious political discussion without each side resorting to insults, lies, exaggerations, or wrong facts. Reading the comments proves it.

Not all liberals are lazy, govt depending drug addicts.
Not all conservatives are bible thumping idiots.

The truth to the matter is, both sides have valid ideas and both sides have dumb ideas. You can look at a lot of situations with different perspectives and come to complete different conclusions. For example: refugees.

A Liberal looks at people on the brink of disaster who just need a safe place to live and want to help those in need.
A Conservative sees a bunch of people who think and look differently and pose a possible risk to America and want no part in helping them.

There is valid arguments to be made from both sides. America was found as a land of immigrants. Unless your native american, your ancestors came from somewhere else to America, most likely, looking for a better life. But, refugees pose a serious risk and would incur more economic hardship on our country.

Which side do you pick?

[Lelacjer]

The Liberal bias is strong with this video. She basically said "conservatives are primal"

[xxlolmasterxx]

Ow, so that means us, conservatives, have a greater sense of good and evil than liberals.

[VinEllis]

This comment section is a catastrophe.

[garrett]

We are not all against immigration. We just don't want people hopping the fence and expecting us to cater to them.

[jeremiahalondraph]

How about this:
Liberals are biased
Conservatives are biased
The end.

[NastyCupid]

so conservatives would survive longer in a apocalyptic scenario?

[elankoulax]

I find it amazing, that in the video it is focused on things that are thought of negatively towards conservatives. They conveniently forgot to mention the part of the study that shows liberals reactions were aggressive and highly erratic. When conservatives to a calmer approach. Also the study shows liberals reacted more to things that were emotionally threatening vs things that were threatening to themselves physically or threatened there livelihood. Conservatives reacted the opposite and took the approach of analyzing the situations and taking action after. The liberals took action first then analyzed the situations.

DOES THAT NOT TELL YOU MORE THEN JUST SAYING CONSERVATIVES REACT FASTER TO FEAR AND THREATS THEN LIBERALS.
It's not about who reacts first, it's how and why they react.

[wheelzwheela]

Conservatives are very loyal (don't cut and run). Liberals are more like to think "if you can't beat them join them". People tend to start off Liberal and end up more Conservative... as the old saying goes "if you are Conservative when you are young you have no heart, if you are Liberal when you are old you have no brain". It's east to think things like "free for everyone! We are all the same" until you wake up look around you and see we are not all the same, some people use the system and feel no shame in taking for others and from future generations. After you eventually come to this inconvenient truth you better not tell others or they'll yell hate speech or bigot.

[qqqq]

It is interesting how the title is: "How Are Conservative And Liberal Brains Different?" But they only talk about conservative brains, and what people think about that, not liberal brains.

Biased much?

[johmdoe]

Does anyone else think that it is absurd to be classified as 1 of 2 categories?! Why, as humans, are we so obsessed with put ourselves in categories? Think about it. Of all the different personality types, how could there possibly be 1 of 2 types u fit in? What happened to individualism in this let's get rid of political parties and ideologies, and start taking our own stances on things. Somebody tell me whether I'm going insane or not

[LesFayes]

It really baffles me how people are not able to think for themselves. Instead they prefer to act like sheep, both conservatives and liberals.