Young Turks Cenk Uygur Slams Conservatives, Calls Them The P-word On Air

Cenk Uygur?of?The Young Turks called out?fear-driven conservatives in an amazing, epic rant on the Dec. 2 TYT broadcast and flat-out called them “that word.” The P word. It’s crazy, I know, but even putting it in this article will get our ads stripped, so…..use your imaginations, brilliant Liberal Americans.

Cenk basically narrowed it down to one thing: fear. George Zimmerman was scared. Darren Wilson was scared. Cenk pointed out lots of things that conservatives are sooooooo freakin’ scared of. Ebola. Immigrants. Terrorists.

He’s right! Why haven’t we been able to fully articulate this before? They’re cowards. They’re?pusillanimous.

As noted by Randa Morris at Addicting Info:

Before someone claims that use of the word p—y in this context is sexist, this slang term is derived from the word pusillanimous, which literally means ?lacking courage or resolution, cowardly, faint-hearted or timid.?[source] The word comes from the Latin pusillanimis, and the first documented use dates back to somewhere between 1580 and 1590.

In other words, it’s the perfect word to use to describe Republicans.

Morris points out that there are numerous studies that prove the point Cenk Uygur is making. Conservatives are wusses. Science and research prove that they are motivated by fear.

The research revealed key differences between the psychological reactions of liberals and conservatives. Those differences were especially pronounced in areas like negativity bias and perceived threats. Yes, conservatives really do see danger lurking everywhere. The research also showed that ?conservatives view themselves as part of a small group, and that they perceive those outside of the group as a threat to the well being of the group itself.? You can read more about the compilation of research into conservative psychology here.

That’s also a large part of why they’re so nervous about their guns, eh? I couldn’t possibly ever say it better than Randa Morris did:

Republicans are a bunch of scared little p–sies. As we’ve seen time and time again in recent years, that fear-based mentality makes them extremely dangerous. As a society, the worst thing we could do is to give them unlimited access to guns and the right to shoot at anything that they perceive as a threat. Yet that is exactly what we’ve done.

Watch Cenk’s beautiful rant below.

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