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c186282 wrote:
Live News :
Looks like Panama will render the rightists on the USCC to stand trial and
be executed for high treason courtesy of the Panamanian justice system.
Rightists are intellectual lightweights who are easily subjugated with propaganda and lies, especially in the backwards, impoverished, Trump supporting 'red' states. If you repeat a lie often enough, rightists will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself because a lie
told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth. Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident
they are acting on their own free will. There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectual leftists. For intellectuals would never be
converted. Arguments targeted at rightists must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect.
Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology.
If you tell a lie, tell a big one for you have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide.
Follow the science:
Researchers have found a possible explanation for why certain people are prejudiced: they're less intelligent.
Children with lower general intelligence are more likely to become
prejudiced as adults, according to a Brock University study.
The study, published in the journal Psychological Science, examined data
from two large-scale British studies, and found lower intelligence scores
in childhood were predictors of greater racism in adulthood, which the researchers controversially explain is brought about by adopting right-wing ideologies.
A secondary analysis of data from a U.S. study also showed those with poor abstract-reasoning skills were more likely to have anti-homosexual
prejudice, partially linked to authoritarian attitudes.
Lead researcher Gordon Hodson told LiveScience that the results of the
study indicate a vicious cycle, in which people with low intelligence are drawn to socially conservative ideologies. In turn, those ideologies can contribute to prejudices.
"Socially conservative ideologies tend to offer structure and order," he
said, explaining why those with lower intelligence may gravitate toward the right. "Unfortunately, many of these features can contribute to prejudice."
The researchers found that people with lower intelligence also tended to
have less contact with other races and groups, which, Dr. Hodson said, supports previous research that determined interacting with other groups is mentally challenging and cognitively draining.
Dr. Hodson explained the findings do not mean all liberals are smart and
all conservatives are stupid, LiveScience.com reports. "There are multiple examples of very bright conservatives and not-so-bright liberals, and many examples of very principled conservatives and very intolerant liberals," he said.
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