The Vast Cognitive Gulf between the Left and the Right

[rangerrebew]

December 21, 2016
The Vast Cognitive Gulf between the Left and the Right
By Patricia McCarthy

Is there a neurological or psychological reason that explains the left's complete meltdown at losing an election, compared to the Right's historic general acceptance of loss?  Since Donald Trump's upset win on November 8th, a vast number of angry voters on the Left have become unhinged, delusional, depressed.  And they act out, like spoiled children when they do not get the toy they want.  Many of our elite media left remain, like Ken Burns, in a "fetal position." 

When Barack Obama won his second term, conservatives were distraught about the certainty that the damage already done by Obama would continue for another four years.  Obamacare would continue to destroy what was once the best health care in the world.  The EPA would continue to destroy jobs and businesses with pride and glee, without a moment's thought for those devastated by their thousands of new regulations.

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[goatprairie]

Basically,  conservatives have always handled setbacks better than liberals because conservatives by nature have always  believed in themselves as determining their lives. King Barack is the most philosophically leftist president ever, but the nature of conservatives is to resist tyranny and keep on with trucking.
Liberals, by contrast, believe in Big Government as the ultimate determinant of their life's fortune. They turn to  BG at every setback not believing that their fate lies within themselves. They thought they were on the way to the Big Liberal-Socialist Utopia and now a monkey wrench has been thrown in the works. The fact that the monkey throwing the wrench, Trump, is not exactly an arch-conservative  fails to dent their skulls.

[geronl]

There is no gulf between Obama and Trump supporters, they act just the same

[pjohns]

I think George Will recently said it about right:  Progressives believe that average people are incapable of self-governance; so a ruling elite (so-called "experts," as he phrased it) must rule over them. 

The recent presidential election was a "Jacksonian" revolt, similar to what happened almost 200 years ago.  (The progressives of that time considered Andrew Jackson just...well, just too crude, and generally unfit to be president.) 

In took almost two centuries; but it has now come full circle...

[Cripplecreek]

There is no gulf between Obama and Trump supporters, they act just the same

They're perfectly complimentary of each other.

Yesterday I got the pleasure of listening to my liberal sister rail on in a panic about how Trump is going to round up all the illegals, build a thousand foot wall, end all social security, welfare, and food stamps all by himself. This is followed up by a laundry list of the wonderful miracles St Barrack of Mombossalulu.

Meanwhile on the other side I get a near perfect mirror image where the all the things the liberals fear become the miracles Saint Tangelo will perform and if he isn't in office every imaginable horror will come out of the democrats.

Nothing but fear mongering and dishonesty to themselves flying back and forth now.

[skeeter]

There's a vast gulf between the left and cognition.

[geronl]

  Progressives believe that average people are incapable of self-governance; so a ruling elite (so-called "experts," as he phrased it) must rule over them. 

Trump believes that too. He doesn't think we even know how to run our businesses without his direction.

[Doug Loss]

They're perfectly complimentary of each other.

Yesterday I got the pleasure of listening to my liberal sister rail on in a panic about how Trump is going to round up all the illegals, build a thousand foot wall, end all social security, welfare, and food stamps all by himself. This is followed up by a laundry list of the wonderful miracles St Barrack of Mombossalulu.

Meanwhile on the other side I get a near perfect mirror image where the all the things the liberals fear become the miracles Saint Tangelo will perform and if he isn't in office every imaginable horror will come out of the democrats.

Nothing but fear mongering and dishonesty to themselves flying back and forth now.

She actually said a "thousand foot wall?"  I would guess that she has no real conception of just how large a measurement 1000 feet is, or of the structural impossibility of building a wall that tall.  Just the sail area would likely destroy it in any brisk wind.

[geronl]

There is no cognitive activity with Trump