Conservatives are purely primitive tribal creatures, or herd animals.
Thinking doesn't enter into their views. Being part of the group by holding common believe is the membership card, and it makes not difference how absurd those beliefs are.
Many conservatives have a loose relationship with facts. The right-wing denial of what most people think of as accepted reality starts with political issues: As recently as 2016, 45 percent of
included “death panels” (it doesn’t). A 2015 poll found that 54 percent of GOP primary voters
(…he isn’t).
Then there are the false beliefs about generally accepted science. Only
agree that climate change is caused by human activities. Only
believe that humans have evolved over time.
And then it gets really crazy. Almost 1 in 6 Trump voters, while simultaneously viewing photographs of the
of Donald Trump and at the 2012 inauguration of Barack Obama , insisted that the former were larger. Sixty-six percent of self-described “very conservative” Americans seriously believe that “Muslims are covertly implementing Sharia law in American courts.”
polled just after the 2016 election either thought that Hillary Clinton was connected to a child sex trafficking ring run out of the basement of a pizzeria in Washington, D.C., or weren’t sure if it was true.
If “truth” is judged on the basis of Enlightenment ideas of reason and more or less objective “evidence,” many of the substantive positions common on the right seem to border on delusional. The left is certainly not immune to credulity (most commonly about the safety of vaccines, GMO foods, and fracking), but the right seems to specialize in it.
“Misinformation is currently predominantly a pathology of the right,” from the Harvard Kennedy School and Northeastern University at a February 2017 conference.
found that three main hyperconservative Facebook pages were roughly twice as likely as three leading ultraliberal Facebook pages to publish fake or misleading information.
................ and, of course they lie more
In the current post-fact, hyper-partisan era of politics, it’s hard to separate accusations of dishonesty from political sparring. If the “liberal mainstream media” accuses a conservative politician of lying, the conservatives fight back by alleging that there’s a bias, and vice versa.
Luckily, several fact-checking sites have attempted to rise above the fray, including PolitiFact.com and the
Washington Post‘s Fact Checker. And while they’re nonpartisan in approach, a recent study of PolitiFact.com’s results by the Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) at George Mason University reveals something that will please one party more than another: Republicans lie more than Democrats, as much as three times as often during Obama’s second term. While this may not come as a surprise from a party that denies certain scientific basics (see: climate change and evolution), the study puts the two parties’ relationships with honesty into distinct relief:
PolitiFact rated 32% of Republican claims as “false” or “pants on fire,” compared to 11% of Democratic claims – a 3 to 1 margin. Conversely, Politifact rated 22% of Democratic claims as “entirely true” compared to 11% of Republican claims – a 2 to 1 margin.
A majority of Democratic statements (54%) were rated as mostly or entirely true, compared to only 18% of Republican statements. Conversely, a majority of Republican statements (52%) were rated as mostly or entirely false, compared to only 24% of Democratic statements.
Despite controversies over Obama administration statements regarding Benghazi, the IRS and the Associated Press, Republicans have continued to fare worse than Democrats, with 60% of their claims rated as false so far this month (May 1 – May 22), compared to 29% of Democratic statements – a 2 to 1 margin.
.................................and they disrespect their spouses more
Democrats are less inclined than
to cheat on their spouses, according to researchers who matched voter records to accounts hacked from a US website that specialises in extramarital affairs.
The study of 80,000 voters in five US states found that Democrats used the
adultery website substantially less than Republicans, Libertarians, Greens and unaffiliated voters. Libertarians consistently ranked as the site’s most frequent clients.
The results highlight an apparent paradox where those with more conservative views and supposedly stricter attitudes towards sex seem happier to hop into bed with someone outside their relationship than more liberal types.
“Our results are perhaps the strongest evidence yet that people with more sexually conservative values, although they claim to act accordingly, are more sexually deviant in practice than their more sexually liberal peers,” the researchers write in
.
....basically - they are just shitty people.