Why don’t liberals know what conservatives believe?

Discussion in 'Politics' started by ipatent, Oct 11, 2021.

  1. ipatent

    ipatent

    Why don’t liberals know what conservatives believe?

    A 2018 study asked 2,100 adults to identify what they believed about a wide range of political issues and then asked them to estimate what people in the other political party believed about those same issues.

    The study found that centrists and those not interested in politics did much better at estimating what the other party believed than politically involved partisans. But while a person’s level of education made no difference when Republicans estimated what Democrats believe, the more time Democrats spent in school, the worse they did at identifying what Republicans believed. Democrats with a high school degree did worse than those without. Democrats with a college degree did worse than high school graduates. And Democrats with a graduate degree did worst of all.

    It seems that the longer liberals stay walled off in communities dominated by their own kind, which is exactly what higher education has become, the worse they are at understanding and empathizing with those who hold other views.

     
  2. Bugenhagen

    Bugenhagen

    Or, who cares really what fart sniffers "think", in quotes as really they just believe whatever is repeated to them most often the last week.

    Educated conservatives are a different matter and becoming an extinct creature.
     
  3. Overnight

    Overnight

    2,100 people from 3 years ago. What the fuck is your point by even posting your post?

    Are you so fucking STUPID that you do not know how much the world has changed in those 3 years? GTFO of our sandbox, you dipshit.
     
  4. Cuddles

    Cuddles

    knowledge vs belief, I see the author can't see the irony in his premise.