As Upton Sinclair said, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding" For a whole bunch of people,

As Upton Sinclair said, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding" For a whole bunch of people, letting letting your peers know you hold right of center beliefs is career ending. Those intellectual resources, well, are we rational beings, or rationalizing beings? Long experience suggests to me the bulk of people are the latter, and higher intelligence often just means being better at those rationalizations. Also, people serving news are upping the game by using the latest in psychology research to influence us. You're referring to that field of "science" that's going through a grave confirmation crisis right now? You might say the latest research in the field is that their body of research is suspect....