ethanUNC
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I am a conservative myself, and I often feel a little embarrassed to admit it. If you ever see someone denying global warming or evolution, or saying that the world is 6000 years old you know its going to be a conservative (at least in my experience). Additionally, conservatives seem much more prone to fallacious arguments and misinformation.
I do have a genuine question (I'm not just voicing my opinion). Assuming this is true (and it seems to be in my experience), what are some possible reasons behind this? If you ever talk to a highly educated person, you know that there is a 90% chance he wont be conservative.
I would imagine Conservatives are generally religious but, only the evangelical ones would believe the Earth is only 6000 years old or think evolution was bunk.I am a conservative myself, and I often feel a little embarrassed to admit it. If you ever see someone denying global warming or evolution, or saying that the world is 6000 years old you know its going to be a conservative (at least in my experience). Additionally, conservatives seem much more prone to fallacious arguments and misinformation.
I do have a genuine question (I'm not just voicing my opinion). Assuming this is true (and it seems to be in my experience), what are some possible reasons behind this? If you ever talk to a highly educated person, you know that there is a 90% chance he wont be conservative.
I am a conservative myself, and I often feel a little embarrassed to admit it. If you ever see someone denying global warming or evolution, or saying that the world is 6000 years old you know its going to be a conservative (at least in my experience). Additionally, conservatives seem much more prone to fallacious arguments and misinformation.
I do have a genuine question (I'm not just voicing my opinion). Assuming this is true (and it seems to be in my experience), what are some possible reasons behind this? If you ever talk to a highly educated person, you know that there is a 90% chance he wont be conservative.
I am a conservative myself, and I often feel a little embarrassed to admit it. If you ever see someone denying global warming or evolution, or saying that the world is 6000 years old you know its going to be a conservative (at least in my experience). Additionally, conservatives seem much more prone to fallacious arguments and misinformation.
I do have a genuine question (I'm not just voicing my opinion). Assuming this is true (and it seems to be in my experience), what are some possible reasons behind this? If you ever talk to a highly educated person, you know that there is a 90% chance he wont be conservative.
I am a conservative myself, and I often feel a little embarrassed to admit it. If you ever see someone denying global warming or evolution, or saying that the world is 6000 years old you know its going to be a conservative (at least in my experience). Additionally, conservatives seem much more prone to fallacious arguments and misinformation.
I do have a genuine question (I'm not just voicing my opinion). Assuming this is true (and it seems to be in my experience), what are some possible reasons behind this? If you ever talk to a highly educated person, you know that there is a 90% chance he wont be conservative.
Pretty much this is why.
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The facts of almost any political situation suggest the left wing position, be it on poverty and welfare, voter ID, this shutdown, and science. The argument from the right wing relies on things that aren't true being true, like a widespread group of people abusing welfare and choosing to live on it or widespread fraudulent voting.
Why does it seem like right wingers are less knowledgeable? Because right wing positions are based on ignoring knowledge.
I am a conservative myself, and I often feel a little embarrassed to admit it. If you ever see someone denying global warming or evolution, or saying that the world is 6000 years old you know its going to be a conservative (at least in my experience). Additionally, conservatives seem much more prone to fallacious arguments and misinformation.
I do have a genuine question (I'm not just voicing my opinion). Assuming this is true (and it seems to be in my experience), what are some possible reasons behind this? If you ever talk to a highly educated person, you know that there is a 90% chance he wont be conservative.
I could have discussed how many recent populist conservatives are generally anti-intellectual, but I feel the need to state that you could find anti-scientific, fallacious rhetoric in many different arenas. William Jennings Bryan occupied a political space in which he was against many conservatives in the Democratic and Republican parties, and yet fought tooth and nail to ensure that evolution in public education was removed from consideration. You can find fallacious arguments everywhere, regardless of political ideology. Folks that love Rachel Maddow participate in promoting ridiculous arguments in a similar way as those that love Limbaugh or Beck.
I am a conservative myself, and I often feel a little embarrassed to admit it. If you ever see someone denying global warming or evolution, or saying that the world is 6000 years old you know its going to be a conservative (at least in my experience). Additionally, conservatives seem much more prone to fallacious arguments and misinformation.
I do have a genuine question (I'm not just voicing my opinion). Assuming this is true (and it seems to be in my experience), what are some possible reasons behind this? If you ever talk to a highly educated person, you know that there is a 90% chance he wont be conservative.
I think a relatively small demographic of conservative voters happens to be the religious fundamentalist sort, because these people have been deliberately courted by the GOP. This is the source of the anti-science crowd, the sort of people who have been told all their lives that science was trying to destroy faith in God, or something. Sadly, this demographic seems to be expanding. Or maybe it's just that modern communications allows them to be louder, more obnoxious, and more organized than before.
The "highly educated = 90% liberal" is outright incorrect. Higher education generally goes with higher income levels, and higher income levels tend to skew more conservative.
The facts of almost any political situation suggest the left wing position, be it on poverty and welfare, voter ID, this shutdown, and science... (?)
The argument from the right wing relies on things that aren't true being true, like a widespread group of people abusing welfare and choosing to live on it or widespread fraudulent voting.
Because right wing positions are based on ignoring knowledge.
spend some time in the economic discussions and you will quickly feel the opposite.
Highly educated =\= bachelors degrees and professional degrees like MBAs. Think PhDs. All of them are liberals.
Economics is probably conservatives' weakest area. Libertarianism is incorrect; it is rejected by all academic economists
Be careful not to confuse "educated" with merely "schooled." Some of the most helpless and misinformed people I've ever met had PhD degrees. On the other hand I have met some very well educated people who didn't finish high school; and Eric Hoffer was, IMO, one of the most astute political philosophers of the 20th century.
Because conservatism is based on the absurd notion that instead of making decisions on the basis of evidence, we should base our decisions on what we've always done, even if it's not working.
I do have a genuine question (I'm not just voicing my opinion). Assuming this is true (and it seems to be in my experience), what are some possible reasons behind this? If you ever talk to a highly educated person, you know that there is a 90% chance he wont be conservative.
Highly educated =\= bachelors degrees and professional degrees like MBAs. Think PhDs. All of them are liberals.
Economics is probably conservatives' weakest area. Libertarianism is incorrect; it is rejected by all academic economists
Really.Pretty much this is why.
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The facts of almost any political situation suggest the left wing position, be it on poverty and welfare, voter ID, this shutdown, and science. The argument from the right wing relies on things that aren't true being true, like a widespread group of people abusing welfare and choosing to live on it or widespread fraudulent voting.
Why does it seem like right wingers are less knowledgeable? Because right wing positions are based on ignoring knowledge.
I am a conservative myself, and I often feel a little embarrassed to admit it. If you ever see someone denying global warming or evolution, or saying that the world is 6000 years old you know its going to be a conservative (at least in my experience). Additionally, conservatives seem much more prone to fallacious arguments and misinformation.
I do have a genuine question (I'm not just voicing my opinion). Assuming this is true (and it seems to be in my experience), what are some possible reasons behind this? If you ever talk to a highly educated person, you know that there is a 90% chance he wont be conservative.
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