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In reply to the discussion: People who want Trump to win the GE in order to "Bring on the Revolution" are no different than... [View all]Bernardo de La Paz
(60,320 posts)It's rather like how atheists know more about some religions than the believers of the religions, for example the average 'christian' American and christianity.
Very few Democrats think every election that "if only a true -- insert 'progressive' / 'liberal' / 'socialist' -- were running we'd win in a landslide. And yet you see the mirror image of that believed whole-heartedly on the conservative blogs / forums.
I wanted to understand their mindset, so I studied it and read up and thought about it.
It turns out that the Right Wing Authoritarian Follower mindset shares with our mindset a strong belief in Family Values, Justice, and Truth. This is measurable and documented.
But one way they depart is that they are much more likely to hold to simple solutions, to binary thinking. They like and expect complex issues to be boiled down to basic yes / no or for / against terms. One of the most famous statements of Republicans during the Bush years was "we don't do nuance". Similarly they said "We make our own reality".