Many conservatives have a loose relationship with facts. The right-wing denial of what most people think of as accepted reality starts with political issues: As recently as 2016, 45 percent of Republicans still believed that the Affordable Care Act included “death panels” (it doesn’t). A 2015 poll found that 54 percent of GOP primary voters believed then-President Obama to be a Muslim (…he isn’t).
Why are conservatives so susceptible to misinformation? The right wing’s disregard for facts and reasoning is not a matter of stupidity or lack of education. College-educated Republicans are actually more likely than less-educated Republicans to have believed that Barack Obama was a Muslim and that “death panels” were part of the ACA. And for political conservatives, but not for liberals, greater knowledge of science and math is associated with a greater likelihood of dismissing what almost all scientists believe about the human causation of global warming.___
Hardly. I’m just pointing out y’all are as propagandized as conservatives. You’re just susceptible to different lies.
The Western mind is fundamentally broken.
Trump already won, comrade! There is no need to continue spreading misinformation on the Internet: your mission was successful.
Go collect your loaf of victory bread, you’ve earned it!
No shit, I was a liberal once. I’ve had to read so many fucking books unlearning a lot of it and actually basing my socialism in historical materialism instead of vibes. I’m sure I still have Western brainworms.