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As a liberal, I am trying to understand the conservative worldview. But I keep running into this roadblock where the ideology just seems to be based on information that is just very clearly factually incorrect or just ignorant. It makes it hard to take seriously. Whether it's claiming that climate change is just a hoax perpetuated by the Chinese to block American manufacturing sector success, or the questioning of highly established evolutionary biology or cosmology, or the misrepresentation of what late term abortions are all about, or claims of the founding fathers of this country being some sort of Christian fundamentalists, or questioning their commitment to the full separation of matters of church and state and of pluralistic religious tolerance, or the history of what happened in the early industrial revolution societies when pure laissez faire principles were strictly followed and all social safety nets were removed, or that stimulus spending does not help get economies out of recessions, etc... it seems the entire worldview is based on information that is very clearly incorrect. This is not opinion. It's just the facts. Now in a democracy, some myths may be popular: that for example bigfoot is real or UFO abductions happen and or that you really may have seen Elvis at the local grocery store. And so that's how people vote. But that doesn't make those things true. It just makes them popular.
And the further right you go, the more outlandish the facts upon which their worldview is based: to the point where many in the alt-right think that blacks, Hispanics, or Jews have somehow been shown to be biologically inferior to Caucasian whites, and that this fact is being covered up by "mainstream" scientists.
If you take away all the ignorance or misinformation, all the hype and propaganda and confusion, it seems the whole worldview should really come crashing down. This may be perhaps why the main groups most in thrall with conservatives today are those without a college education.
But then again, this may just be a misunderstanding on my part. Please discuss.
And the further right you go, the more outlandish the facts upon which their worldview is based: to the point where many in the alt-right think that blacks, Hispanics, or Jews have somehow been shown to be biologically inferior to Caucasian whites, and that this fact is being covered up by "mainstream" scientists.
If you take away all the ignorance or misinformation, all the hype and propaganda and confusion, it seems the whole worldview should really come crashing down. This may be perhaps why the main groups most in thrall with conservatives today are those without a college education.
But then again, this may just be a misunderstanding on my part. Please discuss.
