“NC,” “NH,” and “NJ” – named for their states – are herein noted for their remarkable similarities, which while admittedly too small a sample to be worthy of scientific, or even anecdotal consideration, are mentioned for their heuristic value.
For example, all three are 65-70, Caucasian, depend on FOX News, are life-long Neo-Conservatives, and die-hard card-carrying Trump defenders, who believe the first 13 words of the Second Amendment don’t exist – “NC” proudly noted that he slept with a gun under his pillow — believe their God personally has their back, are Old Testament Christians in name, but otherwise live lives untouched by Christ, haven’t attended church since becoming adults, and like most people born in North Carolina before 1950 , “NC” claimed he wasn’t a racist, but went ballistic whenever Obama was mentioned, convinced by FOX PROPAGANDA, that Obama was born in Kenya, cheated to get A’s at Harvard, and therefore, should never have been elected President.
“NC” never married, never had any children, and lives like a recluse in the house in which he was raised. “NJ” lives alone, but claims he was once married and has an adult son.
“NH” is different in that he is tall, athletic, college educated, a former coach, and married, has no children, but in all other ways is like the other two.
In terms of their personalities, all three exhibit the manners and social skills of a rattle snake – are angry, hostile, suspicious, distrustful, rigid, unable to express sympathy or certainly empathy – obsessive-compulsive – “control freaks,: for example, “NH” insists that he place the canned food on the shelves “his way” – dominates his wife , manages the marriage, down to doing the cooking. “NJ” lines his caps on the shelves in his closet in alphabetical order and every item in the refrigerator has to be in a special place and put back exactly as before, to wit, the knife on the butter must be placed at the same angle as before. “NJ” takes over everyone, everything, and every situation, not limited to the shared kitchen, which he rearranges to his specifications, and telling everyone how to live their lives.
Like their severe Neo-Conservative cousins holding political office, the trio is nasty, grim, stern, tight-lipped, emotionally constipated, humorless, never smiling, and predisposed to mistake a joke for an insult.
“NC” and “NJ,” particularly “NC” is an ‘idiot savant” in that his brain is wired like that of a switchboard with no connection between the in-coming and out-going calls. For example “NC” could tell you the number of buttons on Robert E. Lee’s coat at Appomatox, but could not explain the meaning of that meeting – his brain is overloaded with isolated trivia without relevance, and to a lesser degree “NJ’s” brain, and lesser still, “NH’s”.
And perhaps therein lies the cause – In the evolution of the brain’s frontal cortex – the center for reasoning– connecting the dots – seeing cause and effect – is undeveloped in the Conservative’s brain. He cannot make sense of his world, rendering him vulnerable and therefore defensive – frustrated, hostile, needing to be in control, obsessive -compulsive – distrustful, friendless, rigid, needing a world where everything is black or white, good or bad, right or wrong – enter FOX PROPAGANDA, Evangelical preachers, The Pope, and more recently Donald Trump – because theories, meanings, shades of hues between black and white and gradations cannot be processed, and are therefor an intolerable anathema, So it is that the Conservative brain can simultaneously oppose all Government regulations, yet justify regulating the traffic in a woman’s womb – simultaneously be “Right for Lifers” yet vote the death penalty for living adults.)
