Armchair Warriors: Why Are Conservatives the Biggest Warmongers?

Oxford University Press / By Corey Robin

Armchair Warriors: Why Are Conservatives the Biggest Warmongers?

Conservatives in government have fetishized violence. Why?

April 23, 2012 |

http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/155112/armchair_warriors%3A_why_are_conservatives_the_biggest_warmongers_/

The following is Part 2 of an excerpt from Corey Robin's book "The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin." You can find Part 1 here. http://coreyrobin.com/2012/04/22/protocols-of-machismo-on-the-fetish-of-national-security-part-i/

This is a long but very interesting article. IMHO.

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Armchair Warriors: Why Are Conservatives the Biggest Warmongers? (Original post)	polly7	Apr 2012	OP
Third time around for this discovery...	saras	Apr 2012	#1
Small man parts?	cpamomfromtexas	Apr 2012	#2
LOL !!	polly7	Apr 2012	#3

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Sat Apr 28, 2012, 03:18 PM

saras (6,670 posts)

1. Third time around for this discovery...

I think one of the reasons behaviorism and Taylorism replaced the first wave of psychology following Freud was that this study was getting too close to understanding the psychology of fascism. Then, again, psychology after WWII was moving in the same direction through the fifties through the seventies, and was then replaced by pharmaceutical psychiatry. Now, neurobiologists are making the same discoveries yet again. We'll see how it fares this time around...

Armchair Warriors: Why Are Conservatives the Biggest Warmongers?

1. Third time around for this discovery...

2. Small man parts?

3. LOL !!