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> They have seized total political power. These pathologies inform Donald Trump, his children, the Brett Kavanaughs, and the billionaires who run his administra
by pitaj 8y ago
> They have seized total political power. These pathologies inform Donald Trump, his children, the Brett Kavanaughs, and the billionaires who run his administration.
Ah yes because the _impoverished_ Democrats are fighting for the common man! It's only with the current administration that the "uber-rich" have taken over.
Give me a break. Partisan hacks are ruining political discourse, and framing everything as the end of the world isn't helping either.
The inability of the left to interpret the actions of the right as anything but _evil_ only makes people perceive them as more out-of-touch and pretentious. Studies have shown that rightists (for lack of a better term) are more analytical and understand the positions of the opposition better than those on the left.
- sharkmerry 8y agoCan you link some of those studies? Would love to read them
- pitaj 8y agoConservatives understand liberals better than the reverse [1]: https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/liberals-conservatives-and-the-haidt-results/46113 https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/liberals-conserva... [2]: https://theindependentwhig.com/haidt-passages/haidt/conservatives-understand-liberals-better-than-liberals-understand-conservatives/ https://theindependentwhig.com/haidt-passages/haidt/conserva... Rightists are more analytical [3]: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-28/study-of-politics-and-analytical-thinking-puts-libertarians-on-top https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-28/study-of-... [4]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322862039_Cognitive_Reflection_and_the_2016_US_Presidential_Election https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322862039_Cognitive...
- zen_of_prog 8y agoLink [3] is about libertarians being more analytical. From the article: > Democrats/liberals measure as somewhat more analytical than Republicans/conservatives