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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (705681)3/25/2013 12:51:27 AM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1577030
 
So what's the reason for their unwillingness to accept reasonable compromise..........is it just generalized paranoia or paranoia from living in a multi racial/multi cultural nation or unadulterated machismo or a profound sense of entitlement or something not mentioned or all of the above?


All of the above. It has been said(technically incorrectly, but...) that the Right suffers from a severe case of epistemic closure.

I have never understood the term epistemic closure as it relates to Rs. Is it caused by genetics, cultural indoctrination or wishful thinking? They go to the same schools the rest of us go and are taught the same subjects in the same manner. I don't get how they come out seeing things so differently and why they are so fixed in their views.

Technically speaking it is really confirmation bias, but that term doesn't really encompass what is happening.

I guess wishful thinking is kind of like confirmation bias.

While it is perfectly normal to do this to a certain extent, the Right has crafted their own parallel universe with their own vocabulary, 'facts', media and even schools. While there is always a fringe across the spectrum, the Right started to amp things up during the 1980s. One reason is it seems there is a lot of money in it. And the more outrage they can stoke, the more money there is to be made. Because they have pretty complete coverage of the various tools people would use to fact check, there is no real pressure to open things up to reality. So the meme that the Newtown police took 20 minutes to respond to the Sandy Hook shootings is reality, despite the transcripts which show a completely different story being available for months.

Yeah, I forgot about the money. No question its a great motivator........esp for them.

So they live in a totally different America from the rest of us. One where we are just a single world event from Mad Max. Or the black helicopters, I can't help but notice that harris is prattling along those lines. Or maybe Obama's Negro Army rounding whites up for the concentration camps.

I love this thing about Obama's Negro Army. They so clearly don't get who he is at all.

If you deeply believed that there was a massive conspiracy that a faceless horde was moments away from taking control of your life, then a few innocents being killed by people with an even looser grasp of reality is but a small price to pay...

Now that's frightening to think that its gone that far.
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