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   From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "a425couple"  wrote in message news:5PAPO.47290$6a33.26484@fx33.iad...   
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   Not to put too fine a point on it, but I think one of the big reasons   
   why there is such a strong divide is that many Democrats are susceptible   
   to brainwashing. Their craziness about COVID, their acceptance of gender   
   ideology, and their embrace of censorship are all driven by a desire to   
   have their reality defined by others. They seek the comfort of giving in   
   to the will of others.   
      
   It's why you so often see leftists perfectly comfortable believing   
   incompatible ideas. They simply accept what they are told.   
      
   Not all Democrats are like that, of course, and some Republicans surely   
   are. But study after study shows that Republicans are generally more in   
   tune with reality (that is not a prejudice of mine; there really are   
   such studies), and understand Democrats, while Democrats don't   
   understand Republicans.   
      
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   I see evidence that leftists can't accept that they are less successful due   
   to their own failings and seek group validation that the dogma they profess   
   to believe somehow (don't ask) makes them morally superior to those they   
   envy and resent. It's a replay of the old religious divide between the   
   doctrines of salvation through Faith or Good Works, with Faith being the   
   backup if you can't accomplish anything useful. Notice how thoroughly   
   leftist the totally unproductive media and entertainment industry are. The   
   current motto "Vote blue no matter who" is a symptom of the sheeples' desire   
   to belong in the herd, called Bandwagon in the vocabulary of political   
   trickery.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_techniques   
   "Bandwagon and "inevitable-victory" appeals attempt to persuade the target   
   audience to join in and take the course of action that "everyone else is   
   taking."   
      
   A visible sign they are actually committed to CO2 reduction will be when   
   they dry their own laundry on clotheslines as I do instead of just attacking   
   others for excessive energy consumption.   
      
   This story describes how to lead a society to its own destruction by   
   introducing an attractive but poisonous idea. I believe we have become such   
   victims.   
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Screwfly_Solution   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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