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Reifler suggests it's because conservatives are more rigid than liberals
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Lost me right there. Explain to any 9/11 Conspiracy Theorist (almost completely left wing), you will find the same stubborn conviction as those people who refuse to believe Obama is a legitimate citizen.
Calculate into this equation the head-nodding mentality of many liberal and television hosts when it comes to scientific data which support their beliefs, and the ostracizing of any scientific data which opposes it as propaganda, you can quickly find a reason to question what is shown to you.
Too many times the media which is to provide us with unbiased knowledge is proven wrong. For every report that comes out incorrect for the right (WMD's in Iraq), you find an equal report which is pure propaganda which is shown to be factual. For example, the photoshopped images of Lebanon and the staged child killings (research the Green Helmet Guy) yet are constantly stonewalled to be factual.
The truth is there is no difference in this situation between left and right. It's a mental process we ALL have and ALL use, no matter how opened minded you think you are. It's correlation and multiple categorization the mind develops to make sense of the world. When things don't fit properly, instead of reorganizing your mental grasp of what is reality we mold the new "thing" to merge with what is our proper sense. If Iraq was a good war, and this guy is saying the reason for this good war was an incorrect belief (a belief repeated by Dem & Repub for 10+ years), then something must have occurred to make that true belief appear false.