2016 Postmortem

both abused. She is a teaparty nutcase. I'm here on DU. I suspect intelligence plays a large role, along with other factors and influences in your life. Also your position in the family. She was 1st and my mother's "favorite;" I grew up watching her and learning.

And because a study shows a trend or tendency does not mean that 100% of people with certain characteristics go one way or another. Just more of them.

There's also a difference between what people purport to believe and how they behave. I'm liberal in my beliefs, but conservative in my behavior, in terms of my personal choices, how I dress, act, spend money, etc. So my behavior is restrained by fear (fear of loss, fear of abandonment, fear the asshole across the street, etc.) but my thinking is not.

On the other hand, how many so-called conservative, we're all on our own, time to tear down the government with guns, tea party nutcases actually are living totally on somebody else's dime doing nothing? Hint: every single one that I know!