For the life of me, I will never understand how GOPrs perceive basic reality...

[MrScorpio]

It always sounds like they're living on a completely different planet.

[onecaliberal]

1. Me either and I hope I never do.

[JI7]

2. Because it comes from their bigoted feelings. THey are willing to make up anything to justify those

feelings .

[fleur-de-lisa]

3. They long for the days when only rich white males had power.

They don’t want black people, brown people, gay people, and women to vote. They want us to quietly accept whatever shit they choose to shove down our throats.

[mr_lebowski]

4. For one thing most of them don't seem to have even gotten the most basic training

In the subjects of 'Logic' and 'Critical Thinking'.

That or they just didn't pay attention, or simply could not grasp it.

Without critical thinking skills, people develop all kinds of random and silly ideas about ... things.

Being exposed to beliefs in magical fairy sky daddies and having the idea that there is such a thing shoved down your throat from an early age ... doesn't help.

[TEB]

11. So wait you're not trying to say the tooth fairy is not real

[mr_lebowski]

12. Let's just say if blasphemy is what you're in the market for ...

I've definitely got you down.

Whatever sort you want

[vlyons]

5. They don't perceive reality the way it truly exists

They see only the pictures and movies in their heads. Their minds are filled with selfishness, fear, hatred, entitlement.

[RKP5637]

8. Sort of a delusional disorder, but not full blown ...

Something like this ... but on the light side...

"Delusions are the main symptom of delusional disorder. They’re unshakable beliefs in something that isn’t true or based on reality. But that doesn’t mean they’re completely unrealistic. Delusional disorder involves delusions that aren’t bizarre, having to do with situations that could happen in real life, like being followed, poisoned, deceived, conspired against, or loved from a distance. These delusions usually involve mistaken perceptions or experiences. But in reality, the situations are either not true at all or highly exaggerated." WebMD

IMO a lot of this is encouraged and fostered by outfits like Fox News for the profit motive.

[RKP5637]

6. I think some have some significant mental problems. n/t

[The River]

7. Fear

plain and simple.

[RKP5637]

9. Yeah, that is pretty much the common thread!!! n/t

[John Fante]

10. Conservative propaganda.

It indoctrinates and, in many cases, radicalizes those who consume it. It isn't only low IQ individuals who are susceptible either. Look at that piece of shit James Woods, for example.

[Skittles]

13. the one thing they ALL have in common

is the belief they are SUPERIOR to "certain people"

[moondust]

14. Tribalism.

Learned.

[demigoddess]

15. propaganda and brainwashing. I would say you

aren't old enough to have listened to Rush in the 90s. Plain old brainwashing. we studied it in high school.

[MrScorpio]

16. I was stationed at the Pentagon when I listened to Rush back in the 90s

He was sounding freaking ridiculous back then

[unblock]

17. The very concepts of truth and reality are different for them.

It's all based on tribal loyalty. If their leader says x is so, then that's their truth and their role is to go around insisting the x is so. If enough people go along with it, then they win and x effectively becomes reality.

That's certainly true is x is an image thing. For instance if they all go around tying some negative trait to an opposing candidate, then eventually that becomes part of that candidate's image. It works in politics. Not in science, but it works in politics. For all practical purposes, it becomes reality.

That's why they get so defensive when challenged. You're presenting yourself as an outsider, an enemy, and you're literally threatening their reality. You might think you're simply disagreeing, but they don't see it that way at all.

[Laffy Kat]

18. fMRI images have shown that conservatives show more fear than progressives.

RWNJs have busy limbic systems, especially the amygdala which is reactive during fear. Progressive, OTHO, have more gray matter in the brain, you know, for thinking.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-human-beast/201104/conservatives-big-fear-brain-study-finds

[SheltieLover]

19. This!👆

Thank you, Laffy Kat. You saved me the work of typing this out.

[hvn_nbr_2]

20. It all comes down to epistimology, how they determine truth and reality

If they want to believe something, then it's true. If they don't want to believe something, then it's fake news.

What you and I call evidence and data and observation have nothing whatsoever to do with what really is. The only determinant of reality is what they want to believe.

That's how they can know immediately that something is fake news, without looking at any evidence or reasoning. Evidence and reasoning and rationality have nothing to do with reality. What their own eyes see has nothing to do reality if they don't want to believe. That's how they can be fervently certain of absolute nonsense.

That's how they can know for certain that Hillary eats live white Christian babies with taco sauce on the veranda of the sex slave colony on Mars that she runs out of the basement of a place that doesn't have a basement. If it says something horrible about someone they hate, then it's true automatically because they want to believe it.