Liberal agenda

To the editor:

As a retired professor of psychology and a conservative, let me decode the latest psychological flimflam from my liberal colleagues in the profession. Almost all psychologists are liberal, so the rather negative findings at Cal. U. regarding conservatives no doubt made them jump with joy.

However, there is no discipline more riddled with unexamined philosophical assumptions than psychology. As a result, psychologists often do not know how to interpret their own data.

Mike Cuenca summarized the findings in a recent letter. Conservatives, the study found, are more likely to:

1. “Accept dogma.” Dogma is nothing but a systematized statement of principles. Since liberals have no foundation for a discussion of principles, they think dogma is a dirty word.

2. “Be fearful and aggressive.” They wish. Ready to back out and lash out at the same time. Not likely.

3. “Accept inequality.” A conservative can say “this is better than that.” Liberals, wandering around in the fog of multiculturalism, have lost the ability to discriminate.

4. “Have an inability to accept that life is not black or white.” Gray is liberals’ favorite color. They don’t like the idea, “This is right, that is wrong.”

5. “Avoid reason and rational discourse.” As if our overwhelmingly liberal campuses are on fire with reasoned debate about issues such as abortion, homosexuality and evolution.

These conclusions represent a political agenda, not scientific findings.

Leonard Magruder,

Lawrence