re: #504 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Back to my old stand-by: Conservatism is a religion.

Any fact which does not comport with a religion must be disregarded to protect the religion.

Their faith tells them their religious leaders (Republican politicians) are preaching the truth. Therefore the 27% crasification factor which is hard-core conservative religious believers will never accept the facts. (Nixon had supporters who were convinced he was railroaded after he resigned.)

They are lost: no one can reason someone out of a religion they reasoned themselves into (or were indoctrinated into); they must do it themselves.

That giant gap of fence-sitters who seem to be “above politics” or “both sides are the same” are the ones who can be convinced with evidence.

agreed: a lot of politics is learned the same way religion is

As obama said to bill maher - “they take in symbols and signifiers, not facts and details and positions”