In response to a Krugman article: Why do conservatives react so extremely, so ignorantly? Studies have pointed to several traits more common in conservatives. Maybe it is the fear of change, or maybe disgust at the foreign and unknown, or the greater fear of death. Regardless, about major issues, they are almost always wrong, hysterically shrieking while they drag us into their puritan, militaristic, know-nothing existence.
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