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Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and animosity
- h2odragon 2y agoThe "table of treatments" is great. conversion therapy / brainwashing / "pray the Republicanism away". https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh4764#T1 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh4764#T1
- pmdulaney 2y agoGranted, I am a conservative, but it strikes me that the social ills on the liberal/progressive side of the ledger are more tangible, more likely to be disruptive and damaging on a day-to-day basis than those of the right. Is there a family member who refuses to show up to Thanksgiving dinner because of political differences? That person is more likely to be a partisan of the left. Do you know someone who is supportive of using physical violence to achieve political ends? That person is also more likely to be a partisan of the left. On the other hand, partisans of the right are more likely to be guilty of a rather amorphous "distrust" of the left. They are also more likely to support antidemocratic candidates, we are told. Presumably they have people like Donald Trump in mind. This is a fair critique, but there are safeguards in place in the form of Congress and the courts.