Does biology influence our political opinions?

When scientists find that our reactions to politics stem from our reactions to loud obnoxious noises and threatening images, that would explain why I'm so annoyed by Dr. Joseph Cramer's Deseret News column on Saturday, 27 September 2008 entitled "Does biology influence our political opinions?" It's just so much loud noise, ill analyzed.

One need only search history to see the ridiculous claim advanced (by Oxley, et al) in the September 19 issue of Science, and the book The Attachment of Politics by Kraemer and Roberts.

Wonderful people on the Left - liberal, accepting people: Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, Castro, Che Guevarra, all of whom left thousands and millions in mass graves!

Ah, but they make their surviving cohorts feel so safe and nurtured! In this way, such "liberalism" is self perpetuating. The safe surviving liberals will grow up so accepting of others - ask diehard Soviets and readers of Mao's Little Red book.

Ah, breathe the air of safety - amid the underlying stench of massacred millions.

The researchers are too narrow in their analysis - too North American in their myopia. The world-wide view doesn't bear their premise out.

Far from being calm, nurtured, peaceful individuals, many liberals are angry, reactionary radicals, bent on revolution and slaughter of those they find responsible for their plight.

Oxley and his fellow myopes think with full bellies, safe within their upper middleclass wombs, where they've touched no one and anyone liberal, hungry and insecure have never touched them, or pulled a knife on them or pointed a gun at their heads.

That would skew the results of their research!

On a wider scale, fanatics on the Left and the Right are so far left and right that they start to meet each other on the other side of the circle.

Fear of change can be found on both sides of the aisle. Especially frightening are paranoid liberals who distrust anyone over 30 years old, and who are so dogmatic they can't see any value in holding on to practice and policies that have proven track records over centuries.

These are so radical in their world view, that they kill millions who stand in the way of "human progress."

They did get one thing right.

When the leftist liberals riot in the streets, overthrow govenrments, and kill innocents - that kind of politics affects our biology!