Gyroscopic Investing

MachineGhost wrote: Specifically, “openness”? declines and “conscientiousness”? increases. Higher openness is associated with intellectual curiosity, a preference for variety, and voting for the left; higher conscientiousness, characterized by self-discipline and dutifulness, predicts support for more conservative politics.[/i]

Benko wrote: Openness i.e. open mindedness may have been true of the left in earlier times e.g. 1960s (or perhaps I'm just romanticing and would like to think so) but it does not seem to represent the left in the US as we find it today e.g. "the one"  words to the effect of R's made this mess they need to shut up and let us clean it up, global warmnng "deniers",  college students sucessfully preventing speakers they did nto like from speaking.  Mike Adams is a college prof at Univ NC.  Read some of his columns about how open minded leftist college students are.

MachineGhost wrote: The key takeaway of the article (do you guys ever read anything I post?) is that having children makes you more politically conservative.

Benko wrote:

MachineGhost wrote: Specifically, “openness”? declines and “conscientiousness”? increases. Higher openness is associated with intellectual curiosity, a preference for variety, and voting for the left; higher conscientiousness, characterized by self-discipline and dutifulness, predicts support for more conservative politics.[/i]

Openness i.e. open mindedness may have been true of the left in earlier times e.g. 1960s (or perhaps I'm just romanticing and would like to think so) but it does not seem to represent the left in the US as we find it today e.g. "the one"  words to the effect of R's made this mess they need to shut up and let us clean it up, global warmnng "deniers",  college students sucessfully preventing speakers they did nto like from speaking.  Mike Adams is a college prof at Univ NC.  Read some of his columns about how open minded leftist college students are.

Pointedstick wrote: I read the article too (and usually do) and have to say that I largely agree with Kshartle on this one.

Pointedstick wrote: As time goes in in developed countries, the age at which you have to take real responsibility for yourself keeps rising, so it would make sense that this shift has presaged a corresponding increase in the amount of liberalism. I wonder if conservatism is more common among the young in societies where responsibility is assigned earlier in life.

TennPaGa wrote:

Pointedstick wrote: I read the article too (and usually do) and have to say that I largely agree with Kshartle on this one. Modern children almost universally live in a world of consumption and no consequences. As time goes in in developed countries, the age at which you have to take real responsibility for yourself keeps rising, so it would make sense that this shift has presaged a corresponding increase in the amount of liberalism.

But the article said nothing about an increase in liberalism over time.

Kshartle wrote: I think the simpler and more logical explanation is children by and large experience a world where they consume, almost exclusively, the production of others. They also do not bear the full consequences of their actions. Someone is there (usually parents) to clean up after them.

Many people never grow up from this childlike mentality. Since they no longer have someone doing the providing or cleaning up after their mess they think they can vote for parents who will do that. They don't concern themselves with the obvious insanity and immorality of forcing others to pay for other people (stealing). They want parents to hand out stuff, assume responsibility for everyone's lives and set the rules of the house.

It's basically Peter Pan syndrome, a bunch of adult children.

Watch the people at an Obama rally. He's the dad these adult children never had, it's pathetic.

It's especially bad for the little girls who overwhelming vote Dem. No doubt the growing number of single moms will be shaping their children this way.