I think some of it is background, some of it is knowledge, some of it is time to acclimate to new knowledge, and some is Cognitive Inflexibility (https://eslkev

I think some of it is background, some of it is knowledge, some of it is time to acclimate to new knowledge, and some is Cognitive Inflexibility (https://eslkevin.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/why-conservative-four-researchers-who-culled-through-50-years-of-research-literature-about-the-psychology-of-conservatism-report-that-at-the-core-of-political-conservatism-is-the-resistance-to-change/ https://eslkevin.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/why-conservative-f... and http://mprcenter.org/blog/2008/11/06/media-framing-conservative-or-cognitive-inflexibility/ http://mprcenter.org/blog/2008/11/06/media-framing-conservat... ).