BULLDOG
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The conservative movement was built on the premise that the main organs of knowledge — journalism, academia, science — are hopelessly and even consciously biased toward liberalism. In response to this belief, the right constructed its own bubble in which only a claim originating from within the movement can be taken as true. Julian Sanchez once called this “epistemic closure,” meaning that its beliefs were not open to correction from outside sources.
That's why MAGAs will argue that abortion includes murder of newborn children, or that "drill baby drill" is the perfect remedy for high childcare costs. It's why trump claimed that immigrants were eating their neighbor's pets without even considering how absurd such a claim might be. Of course, the election was stolen. Of course, the insurrection was nothing more than tourists strolling through the capitol. Of course, trump is God's chosen one who was picked, by God, to rule the country. It's why you can't have a rational conversation about anything with your crazy MAGA uncle. I have no idea how to pierce this bubble, or what it will take for them to see that reality is not what they think, but at least we can define what the problem is. That's a start.
That's why MAGAs will argue that abortion includes murder of newborn children, or that "drill baby drill" is the perfect remedy for high childcare costs. It's why trump claimed that immigrants were eating their neighbor's pets without even considering how absurd such a claim might be. Of course, the election was stolen. Of course, the insurrection was nothing more than tourists strolling through the capitol. Of course, trump is God's chosen one who was picked, by God, to rule the country. It's why you can't have a rational conversation about anything with your crazy MAGA uncle. I have no idea how to pierce this bubble, or what it will take for them to see that reality is not what they think, but at least we can define what the problem is. That's a start.