An interesting read....
"My old Republican worldview was flawed because it was based upon a small and particularly rosy sliver of reality. To preserve that worldview, I had to believe that people had morally earned their ?just? desserts, and I had to ignore those whining liberals who tried to point out that the world didn?t actually work that way. I think this shows why Republicans put so much effort into ?creat[ing] our own reality,? into fostering distrust of liberals, experts, scientists, and academics, and why they won?t let a campaign ?be dictated by fact-checkers? (as a Romney pollster put it). It explains why study after study shows ? examples here, here, and here ? that avid consumers of Republican-oriented media are more poorly informed than people who use other news sources or don?t bother to follow the news at all." - Jeremiah Goulka
http://www.salon.com/2012/09/10/why_i_left_the_gop/
"My old Republican worldview was flawed because it was based upon a small and particularly rosy sliver of reality. To preserve that worldview, I had to believe that people had morally earned their ?just? desserts, and I had to ignore those whining liberals who tried to point out that the world didn?t actually work that way. I think this shows why Republicans put so much effort into ?creat[ing] our own reality,? into fostering distrust of liberals, experts, scientists, and academics, and why they won?t let a campaign ?be dictated by fact-checkers? (as a Romney pollster put it). It explains why study after study shows ? examples here, here, and here ? that avid consumers of Republican-oriented media are more poorly informed than people who use other news sources or don?t bother to follow the news at all." - Jeremiah Goulka
http://www.salon.com/2012/09/10/why_i_left_the_gop/
