Landmark Study

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20090303_Karen_Heller__From_the_right__torrents_of_vitriol.html

After spending too much time listening to the hate filled Rush, I read this article which asks yet again, why are conservative/republicans so angry. They act as though they have been an abused minority party for years and years, and that they are the most highly taxed entities on the planet. I offer this study as perhaps an explanation.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20060326/ai_n16174533
In this landmark study done by the esteemed psychologist Jack Block (actually I never heard of him before or after this study) who did a longitudinal study of children from nursery school to adulthood, found that whiny children grew up to be conservative, whereas the cheerful, curious, well adjusted children grew up to be liberals. When I have cited this study people doubt its existence and then ask me where it was done. Strangely, when I say UC Berkeley, they laugh, but I say a study is a study, no matter where it was done. So these whiny, dissatisfied kids grow up to be whiny, dissatisfied adults, which should be of no surprise to anyone. And I do love the image of Karl Rove/Rush Limbaugh trolling through nursery schools looking for the most obnoxious children to recruit to the cause.