Surprises coming for voters for the Leopards-Eating-Faces Party

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@Odesio

When it comes to MAGA it’s something much deeper and far more sinister than a lack of intelligence. Even stupid people learn from their mistakes. A stupid person might have to burn their hands on a hot stove two or three times before the lesson sinks in, but eventually they learn. MAGA is defiantly ignorant. They will proudly bury their heads in the sand in an effort to maintain their ignorance.

That’s faith. This is exactly what the skeptic community warned people about for years; that constantly playing up faith as something good and desirable meant we were creating a population that would proudly deny reality when it’s right in their face, because they’ve been told all their lives how that’s what good and virtuous people do. Changing your beliefs when the facts contradict them is weak and sinful. Only wicked people like scientists do that.

@Measure_for_Measure

Too-online MAGA can be belligerently ignorant, but in general cognitive dissonance is a major feature of modern conservatism. From its earliest days, Fox News existed to insulate its audience from information, as opposed to inform them, which is what normal news organizations do. Reality is too harsh for most (not all) self-identified American conservatives, so they choose information sources that protect them from it.

Also, they’re wrong. Factually wrong, about basically everything they believe. They have to avoid or deny reality in order to continue to be conservatives in the first place. If people were somehow magically forced to only believe in things that are real, conservationism would pretty much evaporate overnight. Underneath the lies, there’s no there there.