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applegrove

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7. Not true for me either but then I am dyslexic and excel at

Reply to bbgrunt (Reply #6)

Sun Feb 15, 2015, 01:52 AM

Feb 2015

big picture thinking. And the big picture tells me that humanity does great things when it is well informed. Humans can adapt to almost any climate providing they have the best information available to them at the time. The GOP leadership know this too which is why they try and keep Americans stupid....so that they and the 1% are the only ones to thrive. They don't like competeting with the well informed for resources........AND REALITY IS A RESOURCE TO THEM BECAUSE IT MEANS POWER, or lack there of.

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Study: American Liberals and Conservatives Think as if From Different Cultures [View all] applegrove Feb 2015 OP

Most middle/lower class Republicans let their need to blame someone beneth them blind them to.... yourout Feb 2015 #1

Hell, they cheer it on hifiguy Feb 2015 #8

Well said Populist_Prole Feb 2015 #11

Conservatives are "intuitive or 'holistic' thinkers" ? forest444 Feb 2015 #2

So conservatives think from their gut. Colbert must be grinning. n/t winter is coming Feb 2015 #3

Well, that would explain most of what comes out of them. forest444 Feb 2015 #4

How interesting. 3catwoman3 Feb 2015 #5

I don't believe that is true for me. I would bbgrunt Feb 2015 #6

Not true for me either but then I am dyslexic and excel at applegrove Feb 2015 #7

Most of these studies collapse. Igel Feb 2015 #19

The GOP intuitive? Failsauce. Rex Feb 2015 #9

It is because they use emotion in their thinking that they applegrove Feb 2015 #10

They operate entirely from faith, intuition and bias. lumberjack_jeff Feb 2015 #13

+1 BrotherIvan Feb 2015 #16

This is one reason Conservatives are flipping out.... Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2015 #12

They don't flip out to the degree that they re-evaluate their opinions in light of new facts. n/t lumberjack_jeff Feb 2015 #15

And admit they're wrong? Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2015 #21

That is why liberals have said for a long time that conservatives are digging their own graves BrotherIvan Feb 2015 #17

I'm stocking up on popcorn for when they go 100% anti-woman. Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2015 #20

I think they already have BrotherIvan Feb 2015 #22

The GOP is reactionary. Unknown Beatle Feb 2015 #14

Is that "intuitive" thinking = to Colbert's truthiness aka right from the gut?!?! stillwaiting Feb 2015 #18