A 2019 study by the “More in Common” project found “the more educated a person is, the worse their Perception Gap” their distorted view of and tendency to attribute extreme positions to those on the “other side.” But the “one critical exception” is that it applies only to Democrats, not Republicans.

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

Their positions are weak, but I believe it's more about them correctly perceiving normally abled people as their enemy, and choosing the winningist strategy to defeat them. It's been working for quite a while.

What is wrong with them in the first place is a question with no easy answers.

[–]wendolynne 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

A leftist or liberal, lurking in your chats, and seeing themselves described as "weak" "dumb" and "brainwashed" might be forgiven for deciding that they have enemies amongst y'all. At least it doesn't seem very friendly.

[–]Chipit[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Because the left does not understand the right, and makes shit up to make us look horrible, while we are nothing like their ridiculous caricature. That's the whole point of this topic.

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," liberals assumed that conservatives would disagree.

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

It is the left who have made enemies of us all. They don't believe in argument, they reject Western values like science and reason, and believe that the Enlightenment was the worst thing to ever happen in human history. Yes, they really believe this.

See: https://newdiscourses.com/2020/07/woke-wont-debate-you-heres-why/

[–]wendolynne 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

"One of the worst things a person could do is hurt a defenseless animal" - see photos of well-known conservatives proudly posing with the dead elephants and lions that they just shot. "Justice is the most important requirement for a society" - why then the push-back on the BLM movement? They are only asking for justice. The confusing thing about conservatives is that they seem to tolerate a high level of cognitive dissonance. I hope you can understand that it is kind of hard to understand someone who can hold contradictory opinions simultaneously. Or maybe words like "defenseless" and "justice" have different meanings, that also would also make it hard to understand.

[–]Chipit[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

see photos of well-known conservatives proudly posing with the dead elephants and lions that they just shot.

Who? Never seen them. Sounds like you've been victim of a propaganda campaign.

Hunting is for meat. Only rich assholes can afford a safari to shoot trophy animals. Fuck those assholes.

why then the push-back on the BLM movement?

They are trained Marxists. If black lives actually mattered, they'd be solving their own community's violence against itself. http://heyjackass.com Here's a dashboard that tracks violence. Police involved shootings are the only number in single digits on that page.

Or maybe words like "defenseless" and "justice" have different meanings, that also would also make it hard to understand.

It's because you have a cartoonish parody of what conservatives believe, as evidenced by your elephants and lions comment.