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I'm wondering because most of the crap that comes out of the talking heads at Fox News are lies and distortions of the truth. However, they continue to do it because their audience doesn't bother fact checking anything.
I'm wondering because most of the crap that comes out of the talking heads at Fox News are lies and distortions of the truth. However, they continue to do it because their audience doesn't bother fact checking anything.
Are Republicans more gullible than the average person?
So you have some notion of average people. Who in your mind is the "average person"?
To answer your question, Republicans aren't gullible.
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I'm wondering because most of the crap that comes out of the talking heads at Fox News are lies and distortions of the truth. However, they continue to do it because their audience doesn't bother fact checking anything.
That's kinda like asking whether religious folks are necessarily more "gullible", just because they believe in things like virgin birth, man walked with dinosaurs, the Rapture, or Magical Undies! When it's really less a matter of "gullibility", than they simply have a greater need to believe things are a certain way... and so they'll just run with whatever confirms that need (aka, will tell 'em what they wanna hear). Of course even trying to tell them that, or anything else they disagree with, becomes a sort of Catch 22!
IMO we live in a world with an enormous and relentless amount of change, probably more than at any other time in human history.... including technological change, but also huge changes in attitudes re: race, religion, gender, class, wealth, and our relationship with each other & the rest of the world, etc.. All this creates anxiety and fear and certain needs... and FOX & the rest (Limbaugh, Beck, Coulter, etc.) have merely gone into the business of exploiting and marketing to those fears & needs... not unlike the way that cigarette companies, televangelists, salesmen, politicians, and pushers do! And ironically technology now enables all this, so you can simply choose the particular "reality" (aka, information sources) you want!
So who knows, maybe someday there will be a sort of "patch" for neo-cons so they can quit their addiction and ease the "withdrawal pains"!
Cognitive-dissonance is just one of many biases that work in our everyday lives. We don’t like to believe that we may be wrong, so we may limit our intake of new information or thinking about things in ways that don’t fit within our pre-existing beliefs. Psychologists call this “confirmation bias.”
Not everyone feels cognitive dissonance to the same degree. People with a higher need for consistency and certainty in their lives usually feel the effects of cognitive dissonance more than those who have a lesser need for such consistency.
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I'm wondering because most of the crap that comes out of the talking heads at Fox News are lies and distortions of the truth. However, they continue to do it because their audience doesn't bother fact checking anything.
It sure seems like they'll believe anything they hear or read in the internet.
I wonder how many of the spoiled grown-up children who generate most of the liberal fantasy-posts here actually have has the experience of watching a small business struggle to meet a both a payroll and all manner of government-mandated expenditure?
Or (Heaven forbid!) spent a few hours on a real, working farm (milk doesn't come from bottles, you know).
One bit of free advice from a former farm kid: If Ol' Bessie lifts her tail and arches her back, don't be standing directly behind her. That stuff has been know to fly several (at shoulder level, no less) if she coughs or sneezes while "in the process".
Last edited by 2nd trick op; 11-03-2012 at 05:24 AM..
Oh shut! democrats just looooove brainwashed republicans!
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