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Fear is driving the Republicans:

from:
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/07/22_politics.shtml

"Four researchers who culled through 50 years of research literature about the psychology of conservatism report that at the core of political conservatism is the resistance to change and a tolerance for inequality, and that some of the common psychological factors linked to political conservatism include:
• Fear and aggression
• Dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity
• Uncertainty avoidance
• Need for cognitive closure
• Terror management
"From our perspective, these psychological factors are capable of contributing to the adoption of conservative ideological contents, either independently or in combination," the researchers wrote in an article, "Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition," recently published in the American Psychological Association's Psychological Bulletin."
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Fear is driving Moderates and Liberals too--though there are some wonderful exceptions, like here.

However, it is important to be afraid of the most appropriate thing. Global Warming will make Bush and company look like pikers, but pikers that caused Global Warming. Even they must somewhere want us to win to prevent them from causing even greater extinction levels from Global Warming.

Come on Purple.

Oh yes, and Come on Blue, Yellow and Green.