Are You Disgusted?

USA Weekend published an article in their December 13th, 2009, issue:

"An emotional reaction to impurity might inform conservative values."

The author states that if you'd be disgusted to discover you're drinking out of someone else's cup, you're probably Conservative.

What? Liberals aren't disgusted by this? They don't mind sharing swine flu virus or any number of other illnesses that can be transmitted by drinking from a sick person's cup?

According to the research, people who were disgusted by unflushed toilets were found to be more conservative than people who weren't disgusted. Obviously these people doing the research haven't been in very many unsanitary bathrooms otherwise they wouldn't be disparaging people who find unflushed toilets disgusting. Either that or, they're just nasty. I've heard there are people out there who are nasty, they like nasty things like unflushed toilets and snot nosed handkerchiefs and mugs with lipstick on them. Do you really want to be classified as a "Liberal" if it means you're someone who doesn't mind sharing a cup with a snagging, gagging person?

Quote from the article: "The more sensitive to disgust you are, the more you might react intuitively negative to sexual or other bodily behaviors that might be seen as unusual or immoral," says Yoel Inbar of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government."

I wonder what John F. Kennedy would say about all of this. He seemed kind of disgusted by some things, like mooching off the government. He said, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." He was referring to whining and looking for a hand-out. These days the government wants a hand out. They want a hand out from any American who's got any money. They really believe in "ask what you can do for your country." They want to take from us whatever we earn so they can dole it back out to us as they see fit. They want to turn us all into a bunch of whiner babies. The government is a whiner baby. I'm disgusted.

Science Daily wrote back in June, 2009:"Easily grossed out? You might be a Conservative"

iStock photo from "Science Daily"

"Conservatives have argued that there is inherent wisdom in repugnance; that feeling disgusted about something -- gay sex between consenting adults, for example -- is cause enough to judge it wrong or immoral, even lacking a concrete reason."

Wait. Do these people not know what happens when gay people have "sex?" Do they really not know what gay men do? I mean, they insert body parts not designed to be inserted in places where stuff is only supposed to come out--do they not know this?!

Has it come to this, that basic hygiene is now passe, falling away like women having to wear dresses not pants and men having to wear hats out-of-doors? If you object to someone sneezing all over your coffee now you're one of those horrid conservatives. If you want to get with the program, go find unflushed toilets to use, soiled cups to drink out of and some gay men to applaud.

UGH! I'm disgusted. I guess I must be conservative!