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The Curious Case Of The Political Virus
When our vision is hopelessly distorted we see a twisted version of reality
It’s commonplace to observe that Trump supporters are for the most part drawn from the unfortunate end of the Gaussian distribution of IQ scores. They tend to be far more ignorant, far less educated, far less healthy, and far more superstitious/religious than the average US citizen (which is quite an accomplishment given how widespread these characteristics are across the USA). Trumpies have no capacity whatsoever for evaluating facts and then reasoning coherently from them. In fact a Trumpie wouldn’t recognize a fact if they tripped over one while waddling to the nearest McSlop franchise. Worst of all, they worship an infantile inarticulate moron whose self-proclaimed genius is roundly disproven every time he opens his pouty little lips.
So you’d think it would be effortless for those on the other side of the US political divide to seem better, right? Surely somewhat more educated people wouldn’t simply believe whatever they were told by TV personalities, fail to reason coherently from widely-available data, and adopt totally untenable positions that are at every turn contradicted by reality?
Sadly, you’d be wrong.
