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Psychology shows that Democrats and Republicans can’t even agree on objective reality
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Some posters on this forum exemplified beautifully.
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No.
Why? I've lived both sides...and it is a logical fallacy to think that each of the two sides is just as wrong as the other.
Side one has been striving to work with scientifically-demonstrable facts, and side 2 has become hidebound to the dogma that whatever first side believes, it must be wrong. As a direct result, if side one believes scientific reality and side two believes that anything side one believes must be wrong, then side two forces itself to believe that which is not in accordance with scientific reality.
One wonderful example of "side two's" rejection of reality is the crowd size during the inauguration this past January - "side two" elected a guy who claims that the crowd on the right is bigger than the one on the left.
