gentlemen! start your interpreting!

In reflex tests of 46 political partisans, psychologists found that conservatives were more likely than liberals to be shocked by sudden threats.

"The whole aim of practical politics," wrote journalist gadfly H.L. Mencken,
"is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins."

i wonder if this has anything to do with all the militaristic posturing typically associated with those views. I'M NOT SCARED, GRRR