{"id":159,"date":"2003-07-28T12:54:32","date_gmt":"2003-07-28T12:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=159"},"modified":"2003-07-28T12:54:32","modified_gmt":"2003-07-28T12:54:32","slug":"those_crazy_con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"Those Crazy Conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a research team at Berkeley, political conservatives like Reagan, Hitler, and even Stalin are motivated by a shared psychology.  Those motivations include &#8220;fear and aggression, dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity; uncertainty avoidance; need for cognitive closure; and terror management.&#8221;  Conservatives are also suspicious of change and accept the basic premise of inequality.  Read the full press release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeley.edu\/news\/media\/releases\/2003\/07\/22_politics.shtml\">here<\/a>.  They needed a study to figure this out?  Couldn&#8217;t they just watch Fox for 10 minutes?<br \/>\nAnd here&#8217;s another story that is sure to piss off the flag-wavers in Washington.  Emmanuel Todd, the French historian who predicted the fall of the Soviets, says that the <a href=\"http:\/\/dominionpaper.ca\/features\/2003\/the_conceited_empire.html\">Pax Americana ain&#8217;t gonna happen<\/a>.<br \/>\nLet the flaming begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a research team at Berkeley, political conservatives like Reagan, Hitler, and even Stalin are motivated by a shared psychology. Those motivations include &#8220;fear and aggression, dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity; uncertainty avoidance; need for cognitive closure; and terror management.&#8221; Conservatives are also suspicious of change and accept the basic premise of inequality. Read <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=159' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-2z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}