George Orwell once wrote that politics was closely related to social identity. 'One sometimes gets the impression,' he wrote in The Road To Wigan Pier, 'that the mere words socialism ... Full Story »
Posted by Fabrice Florin
This is news???(it's listed under the news tab on the MailOnline website). No no no...this is merely the collection of some anectdotal and "in my experience" "evidence" to completely misrepresent both conservatives and liberals. What's more, the statistics/survey research that the author utilizes demonstrate the way in which statistics should not be used. For example, it seems somewhat duplicitous to de-contextualize some or one piece of survey research, set it along side your own limited experience, and then say definitively "right wingers are nice people". Plus the term liberals, conservatives, right-wingers, etc. require a far more nuanced explanation that provided by the author, i.e. "social conservative, fiscal conservative, etc. etc."
