Posted by
JeffersonFan on Sunday, June 15, 2008 3:03:32 PM
More proof that conservatives are nicer than liberals. The newspaper that printed this article is even willing to pay Lefties if they can disprove the facts in the article.
Don't listen to the liberals - Right-wingers really are nicer people, latest research shows
By Peter Schweizer
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1026442/Dont-listen-liberals--Right-wingers-really-nicer-people-latest-research-shows.html#
The article quotes statistics "from the General Social Survey, America's premier social research database,..."
Some highlights from this survey:
71% of conservatives think they have an obligation to care for a sick spouse or parent v. 46% of liberals.
55% conservative get happiness by putting someone else's happiness before their own v. 20% liberal.
65% conservative want to get married v. 30% liberal.
69% conservative want children v. 38% liberal.
'I'll have babies if you pay for them,' one Leftie blogger said on the social networking website yelp.com.
Twice as many conservative parents as liberal parents would sacrifice their own well-being for those of their children.
(World Values Survey)
Liberals hug their children less than conservatives.
(Princeton University research study)
Liberals are more interested in money than conservatives and rate high income as most important factor in choosing a job, and are more likely to agree that "there are no right or wrong ways to make money."
(World Values Survey and General Social Survey)
Left are less likely to give to charity or to volunteer their time to charity. When they do support charity, it is often less the sort of organization that helps people and more one that advocates political action: Barbara Streisand gives to the Bill Clinton Foundation and Michael Moore gives to film festivals.
And finally:
"Scholars at Oxford and Warwick Universities found the same sort of behaviour when they conducted an experiment.
Setting up a computer game that allowed people to accumulate money, they gave participants the option to spend some of their own money in order to take away more from someone else.
The result? Those who considered themselves 'egalitarians' (i.e. Left of centre) were much more willing to give up some of their own money if it meant taking more money from someone else.
Much of the desire to distribute wealth and higher taxation is motivated by envy - the desire to take more from someone else - and bitterness."