Conservatism and Your Mom

By The Daily Dish

A Freudian and evolutionary study of how we become conservative or liberal. Conservatives had happy childhoods and strong attachments to parents; liberals didn't and have more sex. But what about people who had unhappy childhoods because they were so attached to one or other parent? Or did Freud predate neoconservatism?

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http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2007/05/conservatism-and-your-mom/228407/