We're talking about conservatives here... People so profoundly unintelligent, they still belive there is a child sex ring in the basement of a pizza shop even after it became known that there is no basement there.
Think about all of the conservatives you know. Is it a coincidence that they are also the least intelligent people you know?
It's dangerous and counterproductive to say all conservatives are stupid. It implies they're mere victims of misinformation. While this is true for many, there are millions of smart, rich, knowingly evil and selfish conservatives who willingly design and execute evil deeds of conservative politics.
It's not always a lack of intellect on their part. Its the primacy of emotional processes like fear such that intellect is subordinated to those emotional processes.
A person who is quick to anger and slow to understand can be more succinctly described as "fucking stupid" or simply "conservative".
Ah, good ole' "never attribute to malice that which can explained away by treating other people as subhuman trash so you don't have to put intelligent thought into your beliefs".
In at least some cases, they knew emotionally and intellectually, and didn’t care. They repeated a lie knowingly, because they were mad their bully in chief wasn’t reappointed by the flipping EC, which both sides are finally admitting are a detriment to democracy.
Sometimes they're not dumb, but just greedy and heartless. It's an alliance of all the worst people.
I suspect all but the poors are exactly that.
I know a lot of very intelligent people who are deep down the crazy conservative rabbit hole. These people are so smart they don't even acknowledge that their knowledge has gaps.
They choose their sources of information very carefully to confirm the conclusions that their superior intellect has already come to. Any contradictory notions are obviously wrong!
Not just wrong, but liberal propaganda!
The entire pizzagate lie seems to have been patterned wholesale from the Franklin sex abuse allegations. They just lied about who, what, and where, but all the other details are similar.
Regressives are deeply uncreative. Almost every accusation is an admission, because they can't imagine anything outside of their own experiences.
Oh please. Sidney Powell is still talking bullshit. She may have admitted it in court but as soon as she had a chance the shit talking started right back up.
And that's how you know how bad things are here: that people will believe whatever she says in public, but not what she says under oath.
She is basically saying she lied under oath. She has immunity now for her cooperation so she's on borrowed time. Once she testifies against Trump the mob will turn on her. Until then she'll try to get as much as she can out of this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralistic_ignorance
In social psychology, pluralistic ignorance (also known as a collective illusion)[3] is a phenomenon which occurs when people mistakenly believe that everyone else holds a different opinion than their own.[4] Most people in a group may go along with a view they do not agree with, because they incorrectly think that most other people in the group agree with it. It refers to a situation in which the minority position on a given topic is wrongly perceived to be the majority position or where the majority position is wrongly perceived to be the minority position.[5][6] Pluralistic ignorance can arise due to a number of different factors. An individual may misjudge overall perceptions of a topic due to fear, embarrassment, social desirability, or social inhibition. Any of these can lead to the individual incorrectly perceiving the proportion of the general public who share similar beliefs to oneself. As such, pluralistic ignorance can only describe the coincidence of a belief with inaccurate perceptions, but not the process to get to those inaccurate perceptions. Thus, individuals may develop collective illusions when they feel they will receive backlash on their belief as they think it differs from society's belief.[7]
Thanks for posting this concept, and the background. Very interesting read!
It doesn't matter if they admit it or not, the damage has been done.
These people will keep talking lies because they know their base won't believe the truth.
But the media is quiet about this.
You’re literally reading an article in the media.
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