Watch Fox, OANN, Jon Stossel, PoggerU, Ben Shap, Cucker Tarlson, Skeptical Doctor, Thomas Sowell, the Conservative Woman, the opinion column of [your nearest conservative newspaper here], they'll tell you why woke is bad!
It's always absurd when a conservative snarkily asks for sources. And then when provided official sources they just scoff and go "Psh, you really think they're telling the truth?"
I just lean into them. "I heard they are lizard brains!", "they control you with your toothpaste!", " I can't eat that because last time I ended up in a Russian prison!"
Not even peer reviewed data it's that they can have zero faith in a professional unless it's a emergency. You can get second opinions on medical issues but most will just go on youtube/google and "do the research themselves..."
In a marketplace of ideas, maybe panzer88 and your prepper uncle John, have equally valid solutions but you'll never know if you don't listen to everything they say
I didn’t say both sides I said both ends. Modern day conservatives are extremists. They aren’t very different from extremist lefties. Guess you’ve never met crazy commies before.
Sure. But it's the dominant opinion in the GOP. It has to be; the majority of their policy positions are at odds with the academic community.
Their only response to that is to allege vague, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories about sweeping fraud and corruption. Of course fraud and corruption exist, but it's a matter of scale. The kind of conspiracy they're talking about would require absolute secrecy across millions of people all over the world. That simply does not happen.
This is one of the main reasons I left the party after 15+ years and being raised in it. It always bothered me that most of the smart people who'd done the hard work to understand their disciplines were not Republicans and it turns out there actually was a good reason for that.
Well yes but actually no. For example when Republicans talk conspiracies like a giant elite pedo ring.., it actually exists. But instead of it being beneath a Pizza hut it's on Jeffrey Epsteins island.
Furthermore we have all been able to observe the insane amount of coordinated propaganda coming from all our mainstream media lately to manufacture consent for israel's Genocide. Especially the consistent usage of biased language in favor of israel.
All of our big media conglomerates being owned by a few select wealthy elites sounds like a conspiracy but there's very clear ownership diagrams that show these links too.
Conservatives are actually dumb though and they're so dumb they will never admit they've been duped and then most wealthy people will perpetuate the mentality for their own benefit