Just had a fascinating conversation with my smartest friend who is also anti-Trump. He says he gets his news from CNN, MSNBC and the NY Times. So I tested him to see the quality of his general knowledge on the hydroxychloroquine story.
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Also, my friend had never seen the Russian troll farm memes (which looked like a sixth grade project) so he actually believed those memes changed the election. No one who has seen them believes that.
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He also believes that if 17 intelligence agencies say something is true, it's because all 17 independently looked into it. I feel sorry for anyone who thinks that. In the real world, a few people in one agency have an opinion and the rest say it sounds good to them.
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He also believed it is a fact that Russia hacked the DNC. It might be a fact. It might not. But we certainly don't KNOW it to be true.
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As you probably already know, that painful feeling you get is the onset of cognitive dissonance. We all feel it when our ideas are challenged. It's a handy signal that you need to re-evaluate your assumptions.
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We automatically hear the left's news. Unavoidable. We are unable to live in one side only
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Jonathan Haidt's "The Righteous Mind" also posits that conservatives are better able to argue from a liberal position than vice versa which might help explain the vitriol in dialogue today.
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Research also shows conservatives are more into religion and that religious people are less intelligent than agnostics or atheists.
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That is a nice way of describing putting out two completely different informations that cancel each other out
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