Republican personality disorder? (serious)

[Manfred]

I got to wondering why all of my friends are Democrats, and not one is republican, so I thought it cant be that everyone is equal, just they come to different conclusions. It has to be a personality conflict between me and them...

So if you could take this test and post the results, I can find out what it is that seperates Democrats and repobots.
I got a:
ENFP - "Journalist". Uncanny sense of the motivations of others. Life is an exciting drama. 8.1% of total population.
and
Extroverted (E) 55.26% Introverted (I) 44.74%
Sensing (S) 50% Intuitive (N) 50%
Feeling (F) 63.64% Thinking (T) 36.36%
Perceiving (P) 55.26% Judging (J) 44.74%

http://similarminds.com/myers-briggs-jung.html

[mhr]

1. INTJ Here, Sometimes Test INTP In A Bad Mood

eom

[Radical Activist]

2. Arrogance and Pridefullness

are at the heart of all conservative political ideas. It's more of a personality defect than a political ideology.

Oh yeah, I'm an INFP.

[Mr_Spock]

4. Yes, definitely a personality defect for sure.

Someone has a good explanation in thier sig here - something about they feel like they deserve what they steal and Dems feel unworthy of what they earn...

[eddiebrowns]

3. ENFP-same as when I took the test 3 yrs ago n/t

[Malikshah]

5. INFP

I jump from INFP to ENFP based upon what's going on in my life.

strong NFP -- but border I to E

Right now I'm a Questor -- sounds nice :)

[BlueEyedSon]

6. Greed, ignorance, blatant disregard for the wellbeing of others.

[Goldeneye]

7. INFJ

Introverted (I) 64.71% Extroverted (E) 35.29%
Sensing (S) 50% Intuitive (N) 50%
Feeling (F) 52.78% Thinking (T) 47.22%
Judging (J) 61.11% Perceiving (P) 38.89%

Your type is: INFJ
Accuracy:

INFJ - "Author". Strong drive and enjoyment to help others. Complex personality. 1.5% of total population.

.....i love these things

[Domitan]

8. Conservatives have more nightmares

Don't have the source at hand now...but there was one psychological study from the dreamlabs a few years ago that suggested that Conservatives have significantly more nightmares than Liberals.

[Mr_Spock]

11. This makes sense as they seem to want to exercise personal demons

in a public forum, not realizing that Dems don't have the same bizarre paranoid fears that they do. It's the same paranoid fears that have killed millions of people throughout the ages. These psychopaths are truly dangerous.

[Lone Pawn]

9. INTJ/P

eom

[benddem]

10. ENFP

I took this test once before in a large group. They separated everyone into groups. Then the groups were given tests. Our group which had one of each of the types...completed all the tests first.
It was very interesting.

[Supormom]

12. INFP

I would imagine most right wing republicans score extremely high in judgementalism.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

13. Bingo. Controlling fear in unhealthy ways is the root. See these studies.

Understanding the human brain is the key to our problems and who is part of them and who is helping to solve them.

Unfortunately, Americans have been subjected to scientifically applied propaganda for over three generations by an alliance of corporate-dominated government agencies and corporate-dominated media outlets, especially TV.

This isn't just leftist rhetoric. It is real science developed by behavioral scientists, neurologists, sociologists, linguists, and historians.

And the diagnosis for conservative Americans is an ‘Authoritarian Personality’ which is a precursor to a socially destructive behavior called FASCISM.

After WWII, psychologists turned their studies to figuring out what personality traits led to large populations accepting the inhumane fascism of Franco, Mussolini, and Hitler. What they discovered was something they termed 'The Authoritarian Personality' which, in a nutshell, is fearful and prone to seeking security through pack identity (virulent nationalism), attacking other identity groups (like Jews, blacks, gypsys, gays, Muslims, etc.), and revering cruel dictators (the strong father as Fuhrer).

All that ugly behavior because of intentionally exaggerated fear inflaming their amygdala, that primal lizard part of the brain that is vigilant against possible threats and responds quickly without using the rational left-brain thought process that people like the...say...'liberal elitists'...might use to think for themselves instead of blindly accepting the things they are told by authority figures and the media.

Look at this analysis of the 'conservative' personality:
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/07/22_politics.shtml

Take a look at this 1950 questionnaire used to determine 'Fascism Personality Receptivity' or F-factor.
http://www.anesi.com/fscale.htm

Now look at the 14 symptoms of Fascism.
http://empirewatch.org/pages/_archives/fascism/pages/14_symptoms.html

Now look at this article about the lessons learned about the power of the 1938 'War of the Worlds' radio broadcast and deliberately exploited with omnipresent television culture, the propagandists dream invention.
http://www.mackwhite.com/tv.html

And look at this site looking into the science of affecting how people think and behave or brainwashing:
http://www.hermes-press.com/brainwash1.htm

Besides the primal element of fearful brain control, there is also another primal element of human identity at play in our family experiences projected onto the world at large and used to pick our leaders and judge those in our group. Read linguist George Lakoff's work on 'framing' issues in words that appeal to those originally family-based emotions.

He claims that we tend to model our sense of what is appropriate behavior on either the Republican's 'Strong Father' dictator model or the Democrat's 'Nurturing Mother' teacher model. And he's advised Howard Dean and John Kerry on how conservatives have been using this technique for 30 years with stunning success.
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/10/27_lakoff.shtml

The power of words is also explained in this analysis of a George W. Bush State of the Union speech where the mechanics of verbal abuse and manipulation are explained in detail.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/130534_focusecond13.html

The personality of George W. Bush is explained in this British psychologist’s psychological profile based on family history shown to include abuse and leading to alcoholism, anti-intelectualism, cruelty, and the dreaded fascism-prone ‘Authoritarian Personality.’ Read this and understand just why that man is doing what he’s doing and why so many Americans are applauding him for it. Read this article called ‘So George, How Do You Feel About Your Mom and Dad?’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1033904,00.html

A film illustrating the way corporations perfectly mimic a destructive psychopath shows how that common and dominating structure leads good people to do terrible things:
“While the corporation has the rights and responsibilities of ”a legal person”, its owners and shareholders are not liable for its actions. Moreover, the film explains, a corporation's directors are legally required to do what is best for the company, regardless of the harm created. What kind of person would a corporation be? A clinical psychopath…”
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0120-03.htm

The psychology of an abused child or battered wife is also in play. Americans identify with their government as they would a parent and they are heavily committed to defending it's actions as virtuous and well-meaning. Think of the sad phenomenon of ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ where helpless captives come to identify with and empathize with those who they are most vulnerable to, their very own captors. The status of being dominated induces a regressive embrace of the aggressor into ‘protector’ and their own status into ‘child.’ The power relationship is the sado-masochism that Hitler utilized to build the Nazi party in post-WWII Germany and wrote about in his book ‘Mein Kampf,’ fully aware of what he was exploiting in people’s emotions.

Amnesty International codified the eight tactics used on prisoners to break their will and minds in a list called 'Biderman's Chart of Coercions.' I've noticed that it matches the means that parents, teachers, and other dominating authority figures use to socialize smaller and helpless children. I think some in the White House have seen it and apply it on a national level.

Isolation Deprives victim of all social support (necessary for the) ability to resist.

Developes an intense concern with self.

Makes victim dependent upon interrogator.


Monopolization of Perception Fixes attention upon immediate predicament; fosters introspection.

Eliminates stimuli competing with those controlled by the captor.

Frustrates all actions not consistent with compliance.


Induced Debility & Exhaustion Weakens mental and physical ability to resist.

Threats
Cultivates anxiety and despair.


Occasional Indulgences
Provides positive motivation for compliance.


Demonstrating "Omnipotence"
Suggests futility of resistance

Enforcing Trivial Demands
Develops habit of compliance.


Degradation
Makes cost of resistance appear more damaging to self esteem than capitulation.


Reduces prisoner to "animal level" concerns.

[bliss_eternal]

50. Thank you for all the links, John! This is incredible!

I wish I had access to all this great information a few days ago. I had an encounter with a woman on another board that was frankly bizarre.

A woman that was arguing with another group of women about reproductive rights and the * administration. I had previously thought this woman reasonably intelligent, but that all went out the window that day. All these women were showing her examples of how Shrub wanted to eliminate Roe v Wade and this woman stubbornly insisted it wasn't true, it wasn't factual--in spite of evidence to the contrary. It made no sense at all. Frankly I found it kind of alarming.

I'm guessing it would be like watching a Jew argue for Hitler and the Holocaust.

Everything that you stated here brings it to focus and makes so much more sense to me now. But I am also a bit afraid, that there are so many people in this world that lack the ability to discern information for themselves.

Thank you again.

[Dover]

56. Interesting. PBS did a special the other day about advertising

and what makes people go for a certain product...or candidate. There were lots of experts but there was one advertising GURU in particular (a French man who lives in New England now) who goes straight to the reptile part of the brain using focus groups as his guinea pigs. He finds what he calls the 'code' for a particular product...the thing that gets to the reptilian part of the brain's desire when considering a particular product. Companies pay him huge sums of money for this 'code', and it's always a little different. I think he said the code for selling Hummers, for instance, was DOMINANCE. No surprise there, but what is surprising is that it appeals to women and their fears.

I think this same reptilian brain research is fueling many of the ideas behind the "reality t.v." shows...so maybe 'they' are very deliberately conditioning people to respond from their primal reptilian selves in all mediums now. Another good reason to get 'unplugged' more. They haven't quite figured out how to do that through the internet, though they have managed to covertly create a desire (by planting people in chatrooms to start a 'buzz' about a product_).

I wonder if there is also a code for appealing to our higher selves, rather than going to the lowest common denominator in humans?
I'll bet there is.

[mark11727]

14. Thanks for the link...!

I took an M/B test a couple of years ago, and all I could remember was "NT", and I was the only one of the group that scored that

(I can't recall the other traits, though...)

Today:

Extroverted (E) 54.05% Introverted (I) 45.95%
Sensing (S) 50% Intuitive (N) 50%
Thinking (T) 60% Feeling (F) 40%
Perceiving (P) 51.43% Judging (J) 48.57%

My type is: ESTP

[CindyDale]

15. Hey, no personality type bashing!:

N types are supposed to be open minded, especially you very civilized INFPs!

ENFP and INTJ (along with ENTP and INFJ) have intuition as our dominant function.

Bill and Hillary Clinton are supposedly ENFP and INTJ.

John and Yoko supposedly INFP and INTJ.

We must have some progressive S types, too, though because intuitives are only about 25% of the population. So even if all the intuitives voted for Kerry (which I doubt), at least half of Kerry voters were S types.

My friend who is ESFJ voted for Kerry this time, voted for Nader last time.

In case you can't guess, I'm a PT freak.

Cindy (INTJ)

[Cerridwen]

16. INFP

Myers Briggs Jung Test Results


Introverted (I) 75% Extroverted (E) 25%
Intuitive (N) 60.98% Sensing (S) 39.02%
Feeling (F) 63.89% Thinking (T) 36.11%
Perceiving (P) 62.5% Judging (J) 37.5%

INFP - "Questor". High capacity for caring. Emotional face to the world. High sense of honor derived from internal values. 4.4% of total population.

I found a link to another test if anyone's interested.

But you gotta register.

http://www.advisorteam.com/temperament_sorter/register.asp?partid=1

[fidgeting wildly]

19. Another INFP, checking in.

:hi:

[truehawk]

17. INTP

INTP - "Architect". Greatest precision in thought and language. Can readily discern contradictions and inconsistencies. The world exists primarily to be understood. 3.3% of total population.

[laundry_queen]

40. That's what I got too. n/t

[progdonkey]

43. same here. n/t

[Anarcho-Socialist]

47. Hey me too INTP n/t

:)

[punpirate]

18. Just took the test based...

... upon what Bush has said of himself and how he's behaved in public, and he comes up an EFSJ "Seller."

A classic salesman. No surprise there. :P

[distantearlywarning]

20. This one agitated the Right for quite a while.

http://www.awitness.org/journal/political_conservatism_as_motivated_social_cognition_summary.html

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33714

Says conservative thinking is highly correlated with authoritarianism and a need for cognitive closure.

It prompted a veritable maelstrom in the right for a while, complete with hurled invectives such as "those damn Commie pinkos in the university spending tax dollars to churn out biased research!" There are also a number of discussions about it on the web (see below). Most of these are about what you would expect from right wing nutjobs who don't bother to even read or inform themselves about the research they claim is false.

http://www.davidlimbaugh.com/072603.htm

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=/Commentary/archive/200308/COM20030807b.html

And one from the clearly unbiased and informed *Washington Post*

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A36777-2003Aug8?language=printer

[bluetrain]

59. I know the guy (John) who wrote that first article.

He was expecting a response but not the level it all excallated to. From what he's said, the quantity of hate-mail was a bit of a surprise.




Another INFP here, btw.

[distantearlywarning]

21. I almost forgot...

INFJ here too. Very strongly N. Borderline I/E, depending on how much I dislike other people at any given time.

[SmileyBoy]

22. ENFP - "Journalist" here.

By an average of about 57-43 per category.

[Starlight]

23. That was fun --- INTJ --- the description sounds very accurate

Myers Briggs Jung Test Results


Introverted (I) 70.59% Extroverted (E) 29.41%
Intuitive (N) 51.22% Sensing (S) 48.78%
Thinking (T) 55.56% Feeling (F) 44.44%
Judging (J) 64.52% Perceiving (P) 35.48%


Your type is: INTJ


INTJ - "Mastermind". Introverted intellectual with a preference for finding certainty. A builder of systems and the applier of theoretical models. 2.1% of total population.

[pacalo]

24. ISTP

ISTP - "Engineer". Values freedom of action and following interests and impulses. Independent, concise in speech, master of tools. 5.4% of total population.

Take Free Myers Briggs Jung Personality Test

[Lefty48197]

37. 5.4% my ass! See, we're not so scarece afterall.

.

[idiosyncratic]

41. Another ISTP here. n/t

[pacalo]

54. I thought I was the only one! :)

[pacalo]

53. Damn straight! ;)

[deadparrot]

25. Another INFP

Introverted (I) 52.78% Extroverted (E) 47.22%
Intuitive (N) 55.26% Sensing (S) 44.74%
Feeling (F) 55.88% Thinking (T) 44.12%
Perceiving (P) 67.86% Judging (J) 32.14%

INFP - "Questor". High capacity for caring. Emotional face to the world. High sense of honor derived from internal values. 4.4% of total population.

[Cerridwen]

26. INFPs are 4.4% of the population and it appears many are

here at DU. Wonder which population we're 4.4% of? World? US?

[Glenda]

31. Everywhere I post, everyone is always INFP

EIther I hang out with like-minded people, or there are more than 4.4% of us?

[SharonAnn]

55. Hmmm, I'm ESTP. Am I in the wrongplace?

[Mr_Spock]

27. For the record - INTP

3.3% od population like me according to the site.

[Glenda]

32. You are a Thinker, Mr Spock :)

[libertypirate]

33. Same here INTP

Some good links, for other Types

http://www.typelogic.com/intp.html

[Spera]

52. INFP here, too. n/t

[Lone_Wolf]

28. Maybe there is value in looking at conservatism as a dysfunction...

I think there is merit at looking at conservatives as a type of emotional dysfunction. By viewing conservatism as a mental or emotional dysfunction, it leads to the possibility to treat them...

Perhaps this can be done by using counseling techniques? Gestalt, Person-Centered, and Existential Therapies might be useful.

[CindyDale]

29. Oh, geez, the Soviets tried that

back in the old days. Not a good plan, IMO.

I met someone who said these people are just brainwashed from watching Faux. They need to be deprogrammed. He said he "deprogrammed" two ladies at the St. Louis debate, and they decided to vote for Kerry.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

39. See my post #13. Especially the Fascism Receptivity Index.

We most certainly are suffering from it and it is worth understanding.

[Glenda]

30. INFP, sometimes ENFP n/t

[BillZBubb]

34. INTJ

We are almost opposites. I'm not sure this test would really catch the philosophical differences that mark Repugs from Democrats.

There is no category for acquisitiveness (selfishness), fearfulness, tolerance, and empathy. Repugs seem to have a lot of the first two and not much of the second two.

[VOX]

35. Room for another INFP?

INFP - "Questor". High capacity for caring. Emotional face to the world. High sense of honor derived from internal values. 4.4% of total population.
:kick:

[Digit]

36. Control issues?

They want to control everyone around them.
At least that is the flaw I notice in the few I know.

[idiosyncratic]

38. ISTP

ISTP - "Engineer".

Values freedom of action and following interests and impulses. Independent, concise in speech, master of tools.

5.4% of total population.


Introverted (I) 53.33% Extroverted (E) 46.67%
Sensing (S) 65.63% Intuitive (N) 34.38%
Thinking (T) 59.38% Feeling (F) 40.63%
Perceiving (P) 59.38% Judging (J) 40.63%

[highplainsdem]

42. Another ENFP/Journalist here

Extroverted (E) 67.65% Introverted (I) 32.35%
Intuitive (N) 54.55% Sensing (S) 45.45%
Feeling (F) 57.89% Thinking (T) 42.11%
Perceiving (P) 64.1% Judging (J) 35.9%

The "journalist" label is interesting, because I have been a journalist (briefly).

[elderly man]

44. INTJ

I noticed most Du'ers who took the test fall into the NF or NT
category.
I suspect most Republicans will fall into the SJ or SP category.
Another test to consider is that of Piaget that measures the
level of intelectual development.

[AgadorSparticus]

45. like they say, birds of a feather.....another INFP here.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

46. ESTP...always

Extroverted (E) 87.1% Introverted (I) 12.9%
Sensing (S) 58.97% Intuitive (N) 41.03%
Thinking (T) 67.65% Feeling (F) 32.35%
Perceiving (P) 56.41% Judging (J) 43.59%


Your type is: ESTP


ESTP - "Promotor". Action! When present, things begin to happen. Fiercely competitive. Entrepreneur. Often uses shock effect to get attention. Negotiator par excellence. 4.3% of total population.

[Only Me]

48. Another ISTP

ISTP - "Engineer". Values freedom of action and following interests and impulses. Independent, concise in speech, master of tools. 5.4% of total population.

[RadiDem]

49. INFP for me

[Cadence]

51. INFJ n/t

[doni_georgia]

57. I'm an ENFP, my husband is an INTP

[Dover]

58. Sooooo Manfred....you don't work for the government do you?

Lots of juicy psychological info here, eh? It's probably not too hard to deconstruct the Democratic mindset. It's simply the antithesis of the BUSHIE reptilians. Dems are mammals. Whole different species.

[Sin]

60. took the quiz

I guess im a wierd one hehe

Extroverted (E) 51.43% Introverted (I) 48.57%
Intuitive (N) 73.53% Sensing (S) 26.47%
Feeling (F) 55.56% Thinking (T) 44.44%
Perceiving (P) 64.71% Judging (J) 35.29%

ENFP - "Journalist". Uncanny sense of the motivations of others. Life is an exciting drama. 8.1% of total population.

[rob-ok-vin]

61. Another ENFP

[tommcintyre]

62. It's absolutists vs. relativists. Goes back to "Enlightenment" period

The fight has been going on for hundreds of years now - back to Voltaire, Rosseau, etc (really even further back).

In the long run, we always win (advance). But there are setbacks along the way. This is just one of 'em.

[atommom]

63. INTP here. I'd think that N and P suntypes would be more likely to be

progressives.

[southpaw]

64. Journalist

ENFP

[SammyWinstonJack]

65. ISFP

Artist 8.8% of population.