http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/02/liberals-conservatives-morality-zeal-conviction
From the Moral Majority to the Tea Party, we tend to think of those on the political right as driven by deep moral convictions. Much of the reason involves the right's strong connection with fundamentalist religiosity, and the accompanying rhetoric about "moral values."
Indeed, conservatives have made a habit of accusing liberals of being "moral relativists," even as psychological research paints liberals as more tolerant of uncertainty and nuance than conservatives, and more open to new experiences and ideas. That certainly doesn't sound like the psych profile of a moral crusader.
i beg to differ myself and those i know look at republican devoutness as a heresy and radical zealots who believe in something other than God, they don't speak, act or represent God.
they also make a habit of hate racism and ignoring poor and those not of their kind, show me were theie "PRINCIPLES" formerly called "VALUES" are taught as a positive in the Bible or where God supports their agenda.
Maybe, though, the moral motivations of liberals have been underestimated. That's the upshot of a new political psychology study by Linda Skitka of the University of Illinois-Chicago and two colleagues. The researchers conducted a meta-analysis of 21 separate studies examining the differing moral investments of the left and the right. And they found that overall, liberals showed just as much moral conviction as conservatives—albeit on very different political issues.The 21 studies in question had much in common: All of them asked participants how much their stances on a wide variety of political issues were "based on moral principle," "deeply connected to [their] beliefs about fundamental right and wrong," "a moral stance," and other related questions. All the studies also asked participants about their political ideology.Crunching together this large body of similar research, Skitka and colleagues didn't find much convincing evidence that conservatives feel more morally righteous than liberals do. For instance, in total the 21 studies examined the moral commitments of liberals and conservatives on 41 separate political issues,from drug policy to the Israel-Palestine conflict. But on the large majority of those issues—28 of them in all—liberals and conservatives showed about the same level of moral conviction. Of the remainder, conservatives felt more strongly about 7 issues (immigration, abortion, states' rights, gun control, physician-assisted suicide, the deficit, and the federal budget) and liberals felt more strongly about 6 issues (climate change, the environment, gender equality, income inequality, healthcare reform, and education).
one question can a lot of the response by those on the right wing is largely do to the constant deluge of negativity conveyed to them by the various media the frequent, the concentrated on one's
G W Bush "you can fool some of the people al of the time and those are the ones you want to concentrate on"
