Name for the extreme right-wing of politics that respond to fear as a motivating tactic. Backed up by science that shows that self-described conservatives were described as being easily victimized and vulnerable at an impressionable age, before politics would have entered their thoughts, and by more recent research showing that conservatives naturally have a larger "fear center" in their brain.
Student reporter: What are your views on the South Pole?
Man on street: they want to take our freedoms, we need to bomb them.
Student reporter: ah, another frightened wing reply.
Man on street: they want to take our freedoms, we need to bomb them.
Student reporter: ah, another frightened wing reply.
by Foxybunbun February 18, 2011