Setting the record straight! We're born Conservative or Liberal?

"Obamatraons"? You certaqinly aren't going to change anyone's mind not raise the level of the discussion that way. :-)

I was a born outsider.

Wonder how she came up with that...

I prefer to vote on the issues, as I am a mixture of liberal and conservative, depending on what the issues are. Character also counts for me in who to vote for in office as well.

I think most people are that way, but the study showed hard cord liberals or conservatives are actually born that way. I know I was.

i do think we "become" liberal or conservative at a young age; maybe birth, i'm not sure.

i was raised by conservative parents & had conservative grandparents on both sides of my family. i'm the only liberal in the bunch. :)

My mother is a liberal, and annoys me know end. She voted for Obama and we haven't spoken since.
(Just kidding.)

lol....silly ole you!! :)

The liberal media has had a hay day for years, and now that the media like Fox and Limbaugh has swung right, the liberals are out with claws. That's fine, but when someone categorizes people as black, white, Baptist, Southerner, I get my claws out.

That is so funny to me. The liberal media is only as liberal as their conservative owners allow. Do you get your claws out for the way many conservatives have for decades miss labeled too many others because they do not agree with them. For every complaint logged against liberals conservatives have been just as guilty and lately I have noticed some conservatives start campaigning against something or somoeone before they know the details or the person in question. That remains a wonder to me.

Lately?

I know you can be born straight or gay, but to have an inborn political attitude... I dunno 'bout that.

On the other hand, I see it's associated with hard-wired fear levels, so MAYBE it makes some sense. Conservatives always appeared to me to be unreasonably fearful.

I will say that I grew up a hide-bound liberal, but the Old Man deeply disappointed me by becoming Republican when the Democrats nominated Jack Kennedy. The Old Man was PHOBIC about the Catholic Church. In fact, his attitudes about Jack Kennedy inform me a lot on the attitudes I see about Obama. The Old Man was a racist in denial, and you can count Catholocism as a race so far as he was concerned, and I see a lot of that on Gather when Obama comes up.

Anyway, in my family, my brother was the hyper-conservative outlier, until the Old Man became Republican. He then embraced Republican conservatism like it was his favorite sister (of which he had five). My sister was a marching liberal, until she decided her councilman need to be replaced... by her. And the only way to do it was to run as a Republican. She then followed the Old Man down the Dark Path.

In his seventies, the Old Man recanted. He was a Born-again, fundamentalist Xtian, and he believed that the country had betrayed its values when it rejected the born-again Jimmy Carter in favor of "That Actor." As an act of protest, he re-registered as a Democrat, and became a dyed-in-the-wool "Librul" again.

I should point out that, in 1965, before I was discharged from the Army, the first rant against the war in Viet Nam I ever heard was from the Old Man.

Chuck, you are correct--the thing is that being born with a proclivity to or for an ideology is possible yet, it is a proclivity. Psychologists call those folk empathetic individuals and some say that empathy cannot be taught. Anyway, being born stubborn, arrogant, temperamental and or narcissistic are possibilities.

I don't think you're born that way. Politics requires thought. You can be born gay because attraction requires no thought. It's an instinct.

I'm liberal and was raised in a very conservative household. I just didn't agree with the things my parents did when I was old enough to know any better than to blindly believe what my parents told me.

Right on!

Carol, you see Melissa is telling you just how patterns of beliefs are formed--can you hear her?

I was raised by very liberal parents but left that life after seeing how destructive it can be. I don't consider myself conservative and don't like to label myself. Due to my nightmarish childhood I can't stand being around liberals to long. I rarely visit my parents at all because of this.

I don't like Fox News or Rush Limbaugh. I think they're counterproductive and don't have an agenda I can get behind. I'm still waiting for a politician to wow me but I won't get my hopes up.

I'm a liberal conservative

lol I tend to be that way too Richard.

Yeah, as the word 'Liberal' means a free person and the word Conservative basically means to continue with the old proven ways till they are proven to not work anymore.

At that time we all need liberal, free minds, thinking and finding new solutions, exploring all possible ways to fix a problem.

Carol you continue to say that you're not for Palin and not against Obama...but everything I read by you is criticism of Obama. Gotta say it....if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck....well I think you know the rest.

Also, Carla, Carol still has a deep pile of spankings running in another post she began yesterday.

And just how many times have you criticized Obama Carla? How often do you criticize Palin? Duck?

I vote for the candidate who displays the most humanity and intellect--Kennedy, Carter, (he had some issues latter he became the man his heart was) Clinton, and POTUS 44. Being a psychologist, I value my talent for reading the sincerity of people by reading their body language.

If that makes me a Democrat so be it, I advocate for the personal ability which is put forth when a candidate speaks extemporaneously that is truth and nature not politics.