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In reply to the discussion: Met my first Trump voter the other night. [View all]Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)In very rare cases the mental capacity is simply not there, but generally almost everyone can learn to think critically. But, the fact that a skill is learned doesn't mean it will be used.
What basically amounts to brainwashing has been conducted on a major scale in this country. Many people are so sure that, basically, liberals are evil, that they will not use any skills that prove otherwise. Look at the hard-core Trump base. They are having to work extremely hard to deny all that is clearly true about Trump's depravity and incompetence. They are frantically fighting off the truth.
I have often wondered how people with such poor ability to reason even get by in their daily lives. How they hold a job or keep themselves safe. But they do. They have critical thinking and reasoning skills. They simply choose not to use those skills where political ideology is involved.