Attention: Conservative Obsessive Captains

[STL717]

So....

Which is Al Gore and manmade global warming?
Politics or religion?

 

[Amish RakeFight]

Liberals More Educated Than Conservatives

It's been said that liberals tend to be more educated than conservatives. This is generally true, but up until a point, then one actually begins gravitating more towards conservatism.

Here's an article which compares the two different personalities and their differences.

http://psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-20061222-000001.html


It's a few pages long, but well worth the read. I've always enjoyed their articles.
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[Dan Roman]

On behalf of beleaguered FO's everywhere: SHUT UP!! Just Shut-up!!!

You know, all I really want to do is just go to work and do my job as professionally and exact as possible. I don't mind a pleasant conversation mixed in as well. I am interested in your life, your toys, heck you can even show me your family photos. But I don't give a rats *ss who you think I should vote for, and I really don't need multi-day 8 hour lectures on your views.

First of all you are a 50 something year old white male airline captain, and you think I don't know whom you think I should vote for? You think that I don't know that the 2 most important issues in my life are your pension (so I now dutifully sit in the right seat for an extra 5 years) and protecting the income at your tax bracket?

You think that an informed voter is one who spends their day off in the following way: Get up and watch the Fox morning show, then listen to conservative talk radio for the afternoon, watch the Fox evening news, then hurry up and read your political blast mails from conservative watch dog groups, peruse the internet for the Republican talking points of the day, then spend the evening with Glen Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Shaun Hannity, and do it all over again the next day.

Why is it that a shift manager at McDonalds, a toy department manager at Walmart, a supervisor at Jiffey Lube can go to work and do their job without trying to make the world over in their political image but a college educated, professional like you can't supervise a crew of 8 and keep your ugly opinions to your self? Obama this, Obama that. Four years ago it was Kerry this, and Kerry that.

What a joy it is to see you pick up the USA Today or any other available periodical and watch you shake your head violently, listen to you bitch about liberal reporters, and declare global warming to be a hoax (like evolution I am sure). I even witnessed, with my own eyes, one of these same captain demographics get angry and yell at the television in our crew room when a History Channel documentary was talking about global warming on another planet. Sheesh. Enough with the anger oh displaced Teutonic former master of the universe.

Fellow airman, I too feel passionate about some things, but I also realize that some of those topics are very divisive. I have studied the topics of religion/folklorism/mythology for many years and you can be assured that many of my conclusions about the nature of religion is quite against most peoples' grain. So guess what I don't do? I don't bring it up at work. I save it for certain friends that share my views and don't expect the whole world to comport to my viewpoint through incessant nagging.

I understand that I work in a safety sensitive area, that crew coordination is of the up most import, and bringing up issues like politics can lead to major disputes and lead to a lack of harmony and syncopation between the working crew members. In my case, I am not going to get into an argument about politics, but it sure is a shot to my quality of life for up to 6 days having to listen to your rhetoric. I didn't come to work to be educated by you on the evils of liberals, please leave it at home and discuss amongst your friends.

Thank you.

I'm a fifty something white guy and couldn't agree with you more. That was awesome.

 

[Amish RakeFight]

Here's a quote from the article. I know it's a long one, but well worth reading, especially during our political season.

"All people are born alike—except Republicans and Democrats," quipped Groucho Marx, and in fact it turns out that personality differences between liberals and conservatives are evident in early childhood. In 1969, Berkeley professors Jack and Jeanne Block embarked on a study of childhood personality, asking nursery school teachers to rate children's temperaments. They weren't even thinking about political orientation.

Twenty years later, they decided to compare the subjects' childhood personalities with their political preferences as adults. They found arresting patterns. As kids, liberals had developed close relationships with peers and were rated by their teachers as self-reliant, energetic, impulsive, and resilient. People who were conservative at age 23 had been described by their teachers as easily victimized, easily offended, indecisive, fearful, rigid, inhibited, and vulnerable at age 3. The reason for the difference, the Blocks hypothesized, was that insecure kids most needed the reassurance of tradition and authority, and they found it in conservative politics.

 

[sstearns2]

Well, uhh I doan tink so, Lucee...

http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/qthinice.asp

No, no. He's right. The ice caps are so big now that they're almost able to sail freighters though the northern passage for the first time in recorded history. EErrr, ahh, wait a second....

Scott

 

[say again]

It's almost as bad as reading (or attempting) peoples views on here. I mean that in the fact that many threads turn into political wars where they don't belong. Keep it in the non-aviation chat forum!!!

 

[Bavarian Chef]

Quarterly thread about anti-captain rant ... Check.

 

[Sailpilot]

Quarterly thread about anti-captain rant ... Check.

Hey Chef,

I didn't call for the checklist yet!

and um...... Obama is the brothers with Osama. What were we talking about?

 

[Bringupthebird]

Kuge-
Why not tell the next 10 captains who bother you to shut up? Don't sugar-coat it. Tell them to "SHUT-UP".

You think that their authority extends beyond the SOP's to monopolize the conversation in the cockpit? Nope! They'd be happy to let you sit there with your frosted tips and iPod plugged in to the outer marker.

Unless I find something we both have a common interest in, I don't try to artificially create conversation for my new "friend".

I always thought "liberal" implied an open mind towards those of differing opinion. I guess they can be as close-minded as anyone else about certain subjects.

 

[Bavarian Chef]

Hey Chef,

I didn't call for the checklist yet!

and um...... Obama is the brothers with Osama. What were we talking about?

You f-in captains are all the same. You surfing porn in Kew?