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(58,436 posts)I should have written "A bunch of Liberal Propaganda" above.
Cons love fiction, do they not?
erronis
(14,941 posts)or just about anything that has sentient characters and isn't just all blood and guts.
hvn_nbr_2
(6,481 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,436 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,348 posts)art and music - because they help to keep us human!
Leith
(7,802 posts)logic, comparative religion, astronomy, and a whole host of other topics I haven't thought of yet.
BlueMTexpat
(15,348 posts)Bayard
(21,801 posts)Snorf!
Duppers
(28,094 posts)Science is not just what scientists do-- it's a way of thinking, the only logical way of thinking. Science teaches us ways to test our fact.
Otherwise, everything just becomes emotional reactions to what people encounter in their world, which results in their taking an egocentric/ narcissistic pov.
ffr
(22,644 posts)Just don't do it and you'll fit right in with them.
lastlib
(22,978 posts)and a conservanut's worst nightmare! Anybody need a fix of propaganda, come on over!
NNadir
(33,368 posts)Collimator
(1,639 posts)I had a French teacher who pointed out the irony of the Soviet Union wanting to advance in technology. In order to do so, you have to educate your people. "And when you teach a man to think. . ."
She left her point there, and continued on teaching French adjectives or whatever. I barely remember any French, but that insight remained with me.
erronis
(14,941 posts)Duppers
(28,094 posts)I clumsily tried to make that point above about science being a way of thinking.
Logical thought is necessary for objectivity.
Of course wingers think we're illogical.
IronLionZion
(45,250 posts)and why conservatives want to cut funding for public education
Duppers
(28,094 posts)elleng
(130,126 posts)and have just about completed it; here we are, with an idiot Potus, and Senate.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,846 posts)Here's a Pew Research poll from 2009:
https://www.people-press.org/2009/07/09/section-4-scientists-politics-and-religion/
Most scientists identify as Democrats (55%), while 32% identify as independents and just 6% say they are Republicans.
There's an occasional "odd ball" right-winger, like one of my coworkers who's pretty well educated yet a strong Libertarian.
I finally heard an explanation from him months ago...
He told me that he used to be more liberal, but that changed after he was denied the status of "disabled" for an ankle injury that he suffered in the military.
He hobbles around a little bit when he walks, but he's clearly NOT disabled from it. Nonetheless, he believed that he deserved to live off tax payers for the rest of his life. Since that didn't happen, he wants an end to ALL such social programs.
Yes, he's a vindictive jerk in general.
Duppers
(28,094 posts)Who'd be immune to rational arguments. He sounds compartmentalized and perhaps even religious.