The story of the Berkeley study which claims that whiney children grow up to be conservatives has been all over the blog world this past week. I dispute this statement in the strongest possible terms and I've been around long enough to feel that I have some experience in judging these things.
Whiney kids are tattletellers. They are always looking for someone else to "protect" them from things that "normal" children take for granted. Whiney kids are always running to teachers, play ground superintendents, or expecting Mama and Daddy to tell the "bad" kids to leave their little darlings alone. Whiney kids cry over dodge ball and tag. Whiney kids come from parents who don't want their kids graded because it might effect self-esteem if they get a lower grade. These kids grow up to be hall monitors in high school. Hall monitors grow up to be social services types, prosecutors, and teachers and the most liberal class of people in this country are social workers, prosecutors, and teachers. Insufferably liberal.
This type of liberal can't or won't think for him or herself. They need a bunch of made up rules to get along. You can't have a discussion with these types because everything has a politically correct position and thinking outside the box of PC will definitely bring out the worst in a liberal.
Liberal no longer means you care for the poor and less fortunate and fight for the little guy or champion the underdog. Liberal today means you think you are smarter, know the rules better, and have the right to control society. Liberals see it as their job to protect us from ourselves, whether we want their protection or not. Liberals are responsible for five and six year olds getting tasered or being kicked out of school for, of all things, sexual harrassment. Remember Hillary's "it takes a village to raise a child." Liberals love "group think" as long as they are dictating what subjects can be thought about. Liberals are responsible for all kinds of social engineering projects. Liberals are responsible for convincing the African-American population that they are second-class citizens who aren't smart enough to compete in the world without liberal guidance and helping hands. They are racists of the most disgusting order. Oh, they tell you that we can't win the War on Terror or that there is no way Arabs will accept democracy ... and why do they say that? Because they are inherently racist and underneath all the liberaleze, they don't believe that Arabs are very smart or very capable. They have no sense of history, nor of past accomplishments because they do not know how to think or evaluate information. If it doesn't fit their preconceived rules, it can't be good and needs to be stamped out.'
Now you would think that those who need so many rules to live by would find the military a place they would be comfortable. Au contraire. The military has lots of strict rules, that is true, but they do not suffer tattletellers. You are expected to carry out the mission, not run and whine to superiors every time your socks get wet or someone gives you a dirty look. Most liberals are cowards.
Whiney kids don't grow up to become conservative, they grow up to be flaming moonbats.
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Related:
Wizbang has it right:
I don't even need to read the rest of the article to spot the obvious problem with this study. If there were any conservative kids in Berkley then everyone really was out to get them.
The actual study HERE
UPDATE:
Just as we suspected, these whiney kids all come out of flaming liberal homes to start with. Michelle Malkin has a follow up with "SCOOP: WHO ARE THE WHINY KIDS?" which is very interesting.
What is so significant about this? Well, the Harold E. Jones Child Study Center is only open to children of U.C. Berkeley faculty and staff:
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