I have discovered that Liberals do not have a corner on the mob "group-think" mentality, and the side of the political spectrum that I had always believed to be the more rational and objective has shown me the error of my assumption.
There are some very reasonable and objective people who discuss things on this website, but their voices are often drowned out by the loud, knee jerk reactionaries and by various agenda driven folk.
Rumor mongering and vile gossip have become all too common, and so many people just swallow up the latest bilge, seemingly without any sort of skepticism.
Forget looking for an honest man. It would be enough just to find reasonable ones, and then yet there too I often must go a begging.
My experiences lately have left me looking for other things to do. Trading ideas and discussing things just does not seem so quite satisfying as it once was.
You’re right. Liberals do not hold the copyright and trademark on group mentality but conservatives tolerate a greater diversity of opinion and thought than they do.
I guess for myself is the Cruz/Trump thing hasn’t been so noticeable because I was on the fence and okay with supporting EITHER of them up until recently. I mean I had two choices out of seventeen and one of them looks to be winning. I couldn’t be happier!
And I’d say the same thing if Cruz was winning and Trump wasn’t.
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I just read a very itnerestign article on groupthink the other day- wish i had bookmarked it-
[[There are some very reasonable and objective people who discuss things on this website, but their voices are often drowned out by the loud, knee jerk reactionaries and by various agenda driven folk. ]]
Thjat’s what universities like Berkley do- shout down and opposition, and demand that leaders in the school ban opposing views from appearing- it’s very defiantly a case of group think- ‘safety in numbers’- feeling sheltered beneath the wing of the groupthink mother chicken- And hte funny part is that the groupthink group accuses of outsiders of ‘not having an original thought i ntheir head’ and calls them ‘sheeple’
[[Rumor mongering and vile gossip have become all too common, and so many people just swallow up the latest bilge, seemingly without any sort of skepticism.]]
it got really bad here during the National Enquirer filth that was posted nonstop here- And even though no reputable news station would touch that baseless scandal with a 10 foot pole, I suspect many are still secretly hoping it will take Ted down-