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In reply to the discussion: I had to listen to a truly Ignorant conversation at work on Friday. [View all]Texin
(2,589 posts)27. How much of this is fear being expressed by magical thinking?
I'm sure some of it is, at least. The other part of it - a large part - is the kind of ignorance that's been cultivated in the so-called cult of personality as displayed by the likes of tRump, the Kardashians and Mama June, not to mention the Fux cultists who've had more than twenty years of hard indoctrination by Murdochian philosophy.
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Also, the average I.Q. in the USA is 103, meaning one-half of the population scores below that.
TheBlackAdder
May 2020
#58
We are a religious nation, which means that our default position in assessing life
stopbush
May 2020
#2
America was for a long time a Protestant-majority nation, but Methodists, Presbyterians, ...
Hekate
May 2020
#40
It is because Trump and Republicans has so inundated us with lies, we approach everything given us a
LizBeth
May 2020
#11
Yes-- but the fact the so many powerful people let him get away with it, especially
LymphocyteLover
May 2020
#52
Of course it is not only Trump. RW, Christian Coaltion, Republicans have spouted lies
LizBeth
May 2020
#53
When listening to three, it feels like there are so many. But at 40% of the nation that makes for a
LizBeth
May 2020
#10
So many people stop thinking when they reach a conclusion or are handed one on media
Bernardo de La Paz
May 2020
#15
Dear Byronius, I reprinted your letter on my FaceBook page and attributed it to you...
Mars and Minerva
May 2020
#17
Same here. Wearing a mask in Brevard county puts you decidedly in a minority position.
Pacifist Patriot
May 2020
#73
"It really pisses me off that I am morally obligated to save your ignorant asses along with my
niyad
May 2020
#26
Dr Martin Luther King Jr said it best, "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere
iluvtennis
May 2020
#34
I heard on DSR that 42% of Republicans believe that the virus was invented by Bill Gates
dawg day
May 2020
#36
I suspect the perceived virus connection to climate change I keep coming across...
SleeplessinSoCal
May 2020
#38
Compensatory denial. I keep hearing some state wild statistical downplaying as well.
lambchopp59
May 2020
#42
well.. it's nice you had a coworker with a brain to approach and walk out with you
Demovictory9
May 2020
#63