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[–]Chipit 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Right-wing is essentially the opposite of all of that.

Sadly, this is what people think who live in a censored bubble.

If one side understands the other better, and by extension probably their arguments better too, and still holds their position...that speaks to the strength of their position.

http://theindependentwhig.com/haidt-passages/haidt/conservatives-understand-liberals-better-than-liberals-understand-conservatives/

When faced with questions such as "One of the worst things a person could do is hurt a defenseless animal" or "Justice is the most important requirement for a society," leftists assumed that rightists would disagree.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150428090025/http://www.aei.org/publication/liberals-or-conservatives-whos-really-close-minded/

Jonathan Haidt's experiments ask liberals and conservatives to fill out questionnaires about their values, then to predict how someone from the opposite tribe would fill out the questionnaire. He finds that rightists are able to predict leftists' answers just fine and seem to have a pretty good understanding of their worldviews, but that leftists have no idea how the right thinks or what they value.