Simplistic thinking and rejecting democracy: Scientists find "strikingly" strong link

as well as misperceptions of antidemocratic attitudes among political opponents, were among the most robust predictors of antidemocratic attitudes.”

That makes a lot of sense to me. If the other side is seen as ignoring the rules, why should your own side be bound to them.

tinkin’ iz hardddd

In other news, dummies make poor life choices.

That is the thing that disinformation takes advantage of … the anxiety of not having a narrative to make sense of a world that has changed. The disinformation makes people crave an outer authority to make a complicated world seem easy to digest.

An example is people with kids; as they become consumed with work and family they lose touch with popular culture.

Culture always moves … and then those people’s kids come home from high school one day acting out new music, style, gender, politics … the parents will backlash against it causing the common parent/child coercive relationship that happens frequently in family dynamics. That is because the parents were dis-informed about the shifting cultural playground that youth has become for over a century. And that change made the parents feel vulnerable and they at times respond authoritatively because they are out of touch and losing control.

Trump created a political environment where he targeted people that felt that same sense of power erosion, which is really cultural expansion, and has confused them into giving up any sense of pursuit of happiness for sense of security.

And now they are stuck here with us saying that this is not what they voted for because they were dis-informed.

No shit..

Have to admit I only skimmed the article, but i did not think it was intuitive that one of the groups they put people in was those who “desire chaos.” Is that a scientifically recognized trend? Because I don’t really think of that being a common personality trait.