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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: neolib who wrote (45999)	11/21/2017 3:50:42 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 354772

Well said! I was visiting my children and friends on Saturday and we were all eating dinner and I was shocked by one sweet professor who has a PHD in psychology, but was raised in a conservative household and she told me last time we visited she was rattled by my insistence we are an animal and she is a liberal. She never saw that. That is how deep the conservative myths go. Put another way, if you drill down to the bedrock of Republican ideology I do not believe they understand or believe in democracy or understand its value. Ironically, I think it will be the rise of women employing our democracy that will save us in the end----if Trump and the military and Republicans don't kill us all first. >>Most the thinking and behavior on the right is a direct reflection of what they have done with religion and science. Read up on the creation/evolution "debate" and the tactics they use there, and you will see the same methods and results carried over into AGW, economics, etc. Many moderates, and most liberals will stand up for freedom of religion as being vitally important, but what is happening now in conservative media is that the culture of lying to themselves has nearly completely displaced critical thinking. The results should be no surprise. It turns out that if you hold nutty opinions about reality because that is what your religion teaches you, you will also be susceptible to nutty opinions about reality that have nothing to do with your religion at all, but are instead due to your politics