Liberals can't help it, they are wired that way

[MillCreek]

http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2024915566_brainpoliticsxml.html

But then again, so are conservatives.

[makattak]

See? Predestination is confirmed by science.

[roo_ster]

See? Predestination is confirmed by science.

Calvin Coolidge...Aptly named?

[Ron]

More determinist hogwash, this bs gets trotted out pretty regularly.

[MechAg94]

I would say your way of thinking strongly affects how you react to stimuli.  That doesn't mean you are born that way. 

[230RN]

So what about the old adage about "If a man isn't a socialist by the time he is twenty, he has no heart.  And if he isn't a conservative by the time he's thirty, he has no brain?" (Or some such-like, give or take five years or so.)

[Boomhauer]

So what about the old adage about "If a man isn't a socialist by the time he is twenty, he has no heart.  And if he isn't a conservative by the time he's thirty, he has no brain?" (Or some such-like.)

Sjupposedly attributed to Churchill, but also supposedly false.

""If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart.  If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain." There is no record of anyone hearing Churchill say this. "
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/quotations/quotes-falsely-attributed

(I never had a heart.)

 

[MechAg94]

Even if true, liberal and conservative at that time were not the same as today.  I still don't like it.  Not everyone was stupid at a young age or had parents that didn't teach them a little sense of reality.