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Why Are Conservatives More Susceptible to Believing Lies? (slate.com)
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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.^___^

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Your comments sounds like only non-socialists fall for lies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

I definitely didn't think Russia was going to invade Ukraine! I fell for that one and I probably would again, and I recognize that.

Scientific socialists should be aware of their biases and try to control for them, not just assume our superior political theories make us immune to being tricked.

This article just pisses me off because it frames conservatives as uniquely stupid, which is actually just liberal propaganda. That's why I used liberals to make an example.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Hey, i really appreciate that you acknowledge that. I also didnt think hed to that, i thought him more strategically minded.

I just loathe fellow comrades pretending that they are somehow superior beings for being socialist. Or falling for the propaganda of either anarchist socialists or state communists, believing that a regime cannot do anything wrong just because they adhere to a certain ideology. I too fall for this trap.