XPost: alt.politics.liberalism, alt.politics.democrats   
   From: cx-long@hmn.com   
      
   Two Fingered Annie wrote:   
      
   >On 2/16/26 1:28 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >> On 2026-02-16 10:01, NoBody wrote:   
   >>> Looks like the Dems had better get their spin machines going as THEY   
   >>> are all over the list.   
   >>   
   >> And you actually TRUST Trump's DoJ not to have played fast and loose   
   >> with whose names they've chosen to reveal?   
   >>   
   >> Be honest (for once).   
   >   
   >In other words, nothing will satisfy you. Further discussion is then   
   >pointless.   
   >   
      
      
   Rightists are intellectual lightweights who are easily subjugated with   
   propaganda and lies, especially in the backwards, impoverished, Trump   
   supporting 'red' states.  If you repeat a lie often enough, rightists will   
   believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself because a lie   
   told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.   
   Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident   
   they are acting on their own free will.  There was no point in seeking to   
   convert the intellectual leftists. For intellectuals would never be   
   converted.   Arguments targeted at rightists must therefore be crude, clear   
   and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect.   
   Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology.   
   If you tell a lie, tell a big one for you have nothing to fear if you have   
   nothing to hide.   
      
   Follow the science:   
   Researchers have found a possible explanation for why certain people are   
   prejudiced: they're less intelligent.   
      
   Children with lower general intelligence are more likely to become   
   prejudiced as adults, according to a Brock University study.   
      
   The study, published in the journal Psychological Science, examined data   
   from two large-scale British studies, and found lower intelligence scores   
   in childhood were predictors of greater racism in adulthood, which the   
   researchers controversially explain is brought about by adopting right-wing   
   ideologies.   
      
   A secondary analysis of data from a U.S. study also showed those with poor   
   abstract-reasoning skills were more likely to have anti-homosexual   
   prejudice, partially linked to authoritarian attitudes.   
      
   Lead researcher Gordon Hodson told LiveScience that the results of the   
   study indicate a vicious cycle, in which people with low intelligence are   
   drawn to socially conservative ideologies. In turn, those ideologies can   
   contribute to prejudices.   
      
   "Socially conservative ideologies tend to offer structure and order," he   
   said, explaining why those with lower intelligence may gravitate toward the   
   right. "Unfortunately, many of these features can contribute to prejudice."   
      
   The researchers found that people with lower intelligence also tended to   
   have less contact with other races and groups, which, Dr. Hodson said,   
   supports previous research that determined interacting with other groups is   
   mentally challenging and cognitively draining.   
      
   Dr. Hodson explained the findings do not mean all liberals are smart and   
   all conservatives are stupid, LiveScience.com reports. "There are multiple   
   examples of very bright conservatives and not-so-bright liberals, and many   
   examples of very principled conservatives and very intolerant liberals," he   
   said.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)