Just read this new and completely unbiased study from the gloried halls of academia. It seems that the good people at the UC Berkeley pysch. department have determined what makes conservatives tick. Apparently the same things that made Hitler tick.

California tax dollars at work (http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/07/22_politics.shtml)

Like the fruits & nuts out west have the answer to politics. No wonder their state government is a shambles, their governor facing a recall election, and their economy is going down the 'tubes'.

Although they concluded that conservatives are less "integratively complex" than others are, Glaser said, "it doesn't mean that they're simple-minded."

That study is so typical. It doesn't mention anything about conservative views being about taking responsibility for your own life.

How nice of Glaser to say that it doesn't mean they are simple minded. Agreed - the intolerant morons tend to be in the conservative camp, but extremes do not define a generality.

One can comprehend that situations are complex and still reach the conclusion that complex solutions are inherently flawed in a free and diverse society & that clarity based around personal responsibility is the best and most redeeming value that any society can embrace.

Same old liberal crap - if you want to look beyond the bullshit you are somehow mutually excluded from being able to comprehend & dismiss it as having no real value.

Oy. Keep the bias out of the government institutions, and that goes BOTH WAYS. *Sigh*

Hitler was a vegetarian, an animal rights activist, an environmentalist, hated religion and christianity in particular, and an avid non smoker who ultimatly planned to outlaw smoking. Now tell me, who does that sound like to you?

Ah shut up, Hitler was neither a liberal or a conservative; he was a Nazi. Which is different than both.

Oh, and Hitler was at one time a Christian. He bounced around during his tenure as idiot dictator.

All that we should say about Hitler is that he was a radical. It really doesn't matter which side of the political spectrum he was on.

A lot of people used to be christians, almost all the people in the old days, only now is it that pepole are born, grow up and die without knowing god. I am sure Stalin was born christian to christian parents too, the key thing is that they were not christians when they were dictators. Stalin was a godless communist, and Hitler was into midevil mythology and Runes and all that crap.

Ole Adolf was a really twisted individual, born into a screwed up society. We study Freud, who discovered most everything he learned about the human condition by examining Adolf's society.

On another thread I mentioned a book about violence in education ("For your own good", by Alice Miller).
One of the cases she studies is precisely Hitler's chlidhood. It is pretty appalling. He was a beaten kid, and suffered from many humiliations.
One of the main theories in this book is that the traditional way of raising kids in Germany at the beginning of the century, wich privilegied unconditional obedience to the father and a very strict and unquestioned discipline, helped the nazi to set their dictature, with Hitler as a father like figure for the wole nation.
(I swear I do not have any financial interest into that book !)

Hitler was Austrian born, not German. Probably not a whole helluva lot of difference between the two countries, especially along the borders, except to those who lived there. Guess they didn't beat him enough--he lived past 50.

Yes, he was Austrian. Did you know that one of the first things he did after the annexion of Austria by Germany was to make the army destroy the small village where his father was born and buried ? That's what I call an Oedipus complex !

Ahh, to have had Adolf on the psyciatric couch -- Freud would have re-written his entire catalog of works.