Quote:This is why it's often useless to post sources and studies on message boards. People like you will disregard everything and anything that doesn't already fit their already held world view.

 

"People like you" hmmmm? Actually, I'm probably one of the more open minded people you'll meet, but I have little regard for the professional education and research systems that I spent considerable time working in because I understand their motivations. In fact, the last four current events/political science books I've read have been by noted lefties Sunstein, Zeke Emmanuel, and Hitchens, and I didn't automatically disregard their views, but that doesn't mean that I agree with all that they write either. My father suffers from the Echo Chamber effect, I try to avoid his example by exploring the reasons why lefties think so much differently than I do rather than just reinforcing my own beliefs by never giving them due consideration or only reading after that which confirms my own biases. But, you know, if you disgaree then you're one of "them."

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