The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Eric the Green]

(12-05-2020, 07:50 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: I just picked up a Shield and Brooks piece.  They quoted a psychological study saying the more you prove somebody has the facts wrong, the more tightly they will cling to their ideas.  They also reminisced about the good old days when you assumed the other side had good intentions.  They might be mistaken and misinformed, but you didn’t assume they were evil.  Assuming evil is more the norm these days.

It just reflects what tends to happen here.  The more you report on what is going on on Earth 1, the deeper the clinging to the Earth 2 fantasies get.

Yes, I watched it live. Fact-checking doesn't change emotions.