Agreed, with exception to the education level factor. There are many highly educated and highly intelligent leftists out there. Their seeming lack of ability to appraise information is instead a willful abandonment of critical thinking in compliance with their ideological views.
Exactly. A Liberal friend recently mentioned the importance of getting information from multiple sources. Of course her sources are New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, Washington Post, etc.
They are running on their emotional brain. Facts pull them away from how they feel about trump so they ignore them. They look for facts that reinforce their established emotions.
Agreed, with exception to the education level factor. There are many highly educated and highly intelligent leftists out there. Their seeming lack of ability to appraise information is instead a willful abandonment of critical thinking in compliance with their ideological views.
Ah, the old, "I'm too smart to be misled" situation. I've met too many of those and it just makes me sad.
Exactly. A Liberal friend recently mentioned the importance of getting information from multiple sources. Of course her sources are New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, Washington Post, etc.
They are running on their emotional brain. Facts pull them away from how they feel about trump so they ignore them. They look for facts that reinforce their established emotions.
Yes, emotion plays a huge role in it.