Why I left the GOP
...My old Republican worldview was flawed because it was based upon a small
and particularly rosy sliver of reality. To preserve that worldview, I
had to believe that people had morally earned their “just” desserts,
and I had to ignore those whining liberals who tried to point out that
the world didn’t actually work that way. I think this shows why Republicans put so much effort into “creat[ing] our own reality,” into fostering distrust of liberals, experts, scientists, and academics, and why they won’t let a campaign “be dictated by fact-checkers” (as a Romney pollster put it). It explains why study after study shows — examples here, here, and here –
that avid consumers of Republican-oriented media are more poorly
informed than people who use other news sources or don’t bother to
follow the news at all...
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