If you doubt that crap personality is the driving force behind conservative politics, look back to your childhood. I’ll bet a dollar to a doughnut that every one of your friends and acquaintances who was an a whole then, is a conservative today.
As I grow older and watch my very different children reach adulthood, I find myself moving more to the idea of genetic disposition than I do environment for how we turn out. This is not to say the "wheres" and "hows" of growing up are not important, but that certain traits are often inborn.
Researching this over the years I notice more and more studies and statistics finding that such things as propensity to violence, being unable to stand in another’s shoes (empathy), forgiveness, vengeance and even religious belief are more genetic in nature than previously though. Such stories of course are very unpopular and usually hard to find because without saying it or even meaning to do so, they point out that conservatives are born rather than parents piping The Rush Limbaugh Show through crib monitors for their first 5 years.
An example is while this story tugs hard at my heartstrings when i brought it up to my conservative friend Bubba, his immediate response was "Tough crap".
The story is about an average 14 year old boy in Fayetteville, Ark – a conservative Southern town of 60,000 – who has been beat up and bullied at school consistently over the past seven years without anyone but his parents giving a rat’s ass.
And if that were not enough, this is the very thing that has caused most of the school shootings we seem to hear more and more of as time passes.
A Boy the Bullies Love to Beat Up, Repeatedly