Conservatives More Likely To Have Nightmares Than Liberals

[neverborn]

http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/Republicans-Conservatives-Nightmares.htm

Wonder why?

[Radical Activist]

1. Guilt. Unfulfilled, repressed desires

Or maybe conservatism is just found in people who are often scared and agressive.

[Sapphocrat]

2. Seems more than fair...

For all the nightmares the cons give the libs 24/7, it's more than fair the cons should experience same for a minimum of 8 hours a day.

[Liberal Classic]

3. Get your facts straight first. Then you can distort them anyway you want.

The midnight hours are a lot scarier for Republicans than for Democrats, according to a new study by an East Bay dream researcher. Conservative Republicans have three times as many nightmares as liberal Democrats, and those nightmares tend to feature aggression, misfortune and physical threats, said Kelly Bulkeley, who teaches at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.


This is an extraordinary claim. And as is often said, extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof. Now I need to consider the source. Who is this guy, and why would a red flag be raised for me when an "east bay dream researcher" releases a study suggesting conservatives have unconscious violent dreams.

I plugged Kelly Bulkeley into google and got his home page:

http://www.kellybulkeley.com/idxabout.htm

Batchelor of Arts, Stanford, Master of Theological Studies, Harvard Divinity School, Doctorate, University of Chicago Divinity School.

What makes him think he is qualified to tell me what's going on inside my head? I do not deny he is an educated man, but did his education prepare him adequately in statistics?



The results are based on dreams reported by 56 college students, half who identified themselves as Republicans on the right and half who called themselves left-leaning Democrats. "The sample size is small, but the people involved are highly committed ideologically, so that makes a difference," Bulkeley said.


BAAA HA HA HA!

Now I *know* he isn't qualified to tell me what's going on inside my head.

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. Fear. That's their hot button.

That's how they energize their constituents. There is always a dark horde on the horizon.