You know what? This is crap.
Oh, sure, leftwads don’t understand normal people, but there are endless examples to show that normal people see through leftwads like glass.
In the eternal war of good vs. evil, to say that both sides are the same can only advantage evil.
When Clintstone was prez, it was “It’s only sex,” and “Everyone does it.” Well, everyone doesn’t do it, and to say they do unjustly advantages those who do, and slanders those who don’t.
Your analysis is spot on!
There is some value in anything.
In this case the study being discussed, loaded as it is with unconsidered value judgments, still works well as an attitude survey, and has one very interesting result, in that the more educated a Democrat is, the more he misunderstands Republicans.
This makes sense. In large part your current split is about the development of social castes. The haut-bourgeois caste is a tight social bubble held together essentially by the ideological glue, the social equivalent of a religion, of your university system. They are the most propagandized and the most taboo-bound people in the US, and this study has results that reflect that.
You’re right. This is total crap.
We understand them plenty.
They are depraved degenerates, idiots and quasi-communists.
We are not.
There’s all the difference that needs to be considered.