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40. It helps that they have a "respectable" apparatus to reinforce themselves

Tue Feb 28, 2012, 09:06 AM

Feb 2012

Spin tanks to generate papers, "house" book publishers (e.g., Regnery) to put out books by their favored authors/propagandists, "insider" newsletters, FOX being actively propagandist and MSM with its own insider/centrist biases marking everything outside that as "radical left", etc.

It's tribalism, but it's also easy to be in that tribe. Getting constant "hits" makes it easy for them to never have to sober up.

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Krugman: Conservatives become less willing to look at the facts ... as they become better-educated [View all] pampango Feb 2012 OP

yup; better-educated right-wingers have read books and bought into theories -- they're locked in. unblock Feb 2012 #1

It helps that they have a "respectable" apparatus to reinforce themselves JHB Feb 2012 #40

Conservative economics, e.g. "free trade", deregulation, tax cuts for the rich, are prime examples Romulox Feb 2012 #2

"being 'Conservative'" has become a religion. It is a violation of the 1'st amendment to allow a Vincardog Feb 2012 #4

a religion of bigotry and greed fascisthunter Feb 2012 #7

The principle discussed here: elleng Feb 2012 #3

Educated people vote for Democrats. Republicans with money buy a degree. HopeHoops Feb 2012 #5

Yes. In what fields do these Republicans have their degrees? JDPriestly Feb 2012 #11

You forgot lawyers. Money can buy anything. HopeHoops Feb 2012 #12

and engineers and IT leans libertarian TheKentuckian Feb 2012 #22

Yes, but those "libertarians" vote Republican unc70 Feb 2012 #43

because their weak to their own temptations fascisthunter Feb 2012 #6

I think that misses the mark hfojvt Feb 2012 #8

rational argument, insofar as it is even used by the left, which often prefers to just insult and Vincardog Feb 2012 #10

Almost looks like performance art after a while, doesn't it? gratuitous Feb 2012 #13

Post removed Post removed Feb 2012 #17

Oopsie; my bad gratuitous Feb 2012 #19

what is the thread though? hfojvt Feb 2012 #16

This thread is not about republicans being deluded and fact-challenged. Those are givens. pampango Feb 2012 #18

I agree. All one has to do is be unfortunate enough to have a Tea Party sinkingfeeling Feb 2012 #9

This is why the GOP is NOT a political party BanTheGOP Feb 2012 #14

I just discovered that someone I knew at Yale and who didn't seem crazy at the time Lydia Leftcoast Feb 2012 #15

I yust got out! ThoughtCriminal Feb 2012 #36

Belief and what you say aren't the same Spike89 Feb 2012 #20

You've nailed it. Educated Republicans aren't more stupid (than less educated), but more are LIARS.. Faryn Balyncd Feb 2012 #28

that was my initial take as well...nt BootinUp Feb 2012 #42

What is their Education ? it could be like those Madrassas where they are "educated" JI7 Feb 2012 #21

of course they do. They think they've learned and know everything notadmblnd Feb 2012 #23

Sometimes if feels like the better educated ones among the right-wing Keystone Writer Feb 2012 #24

If they seek education, it is for the purpose of creating a mythology that will refute the facts. tanyev Feb 2012 #25

It could have a lot to do with goals. For the left wing economist trickedown did not work because jwirr Feb 2012 #26

That's ProSense Feb 2012 #27

I read sometime back that teabaggers are more educated than the general population.. Fumesucker Feb 2012 #29

Those would ProSense Feb 2012 #30

I know lots of college graduates that can't spell as well as I can.. Fumesucker Feb 2012 #31

I ProSense Feb 2012 #33

Practically everyone I know is a conservative.. Fumesucker Feb 2012 #37

"debate isn’t going to be won by rational argument" lumberjack_jeff Feb 2012 #32

That "Diploma" from "The University of Close Cover before Striking" ThoughtCriminal Feb 2012 #34

It must be emotional libodem Feb 2012 #35

you can't reason a person out of a position... 0rganism Feb 2012 #38

I've known a few conservatives over the years raouldukelives Feb 2012 #39

I know one of those guys. JoePhilly Feb 2012 #41