You know you project that onto all the conservatives, its the stereotypical 65 year old high school educated fox new watching retiree that is skewing the statistics. There is actually a whole new generation of lower 20's conservatives who got to watch the last 8 years of Obama growing up so you'll be singing that same tune long after its not true anymore.
There aren't that many 65 year olds posting on ATOT though so you are basically ranting over and over again on this forum about a small group of people but if you look at the older conservatives who post here individually they don't even fit the stereotype that you've read 10,000 articles about.
Really, I have been posting here since before it became the forum it is today, one of the rarer liberals in a sea of conservatives, and it was only since about 2012, I think, approximately, that I first begin to notice data of the CBDifference, a study of self reported Liberals and Conservative college students whose brains were imaged via MRI, an experiment in which a physical difference in the two groups brains was observed. I had no idea that these college kids, well kids seems a bad term, were in their mid sixties.
Are you sure you aren't making all of this up in a rationalization to avoid unpleasant truth, just as further experiments on Conservative brains had demonstrated and thus predict you would do? As to the matter of me being the one to project, I have been educating folk who post here that this is what we do since 1999. I'm glad to see some of that is starting to sink in, but please, when people who practice avoidance of cognitive dissonance do so according to scientific predictions, the observation of that fact by folk not so susceptible to that frailty is called scientific observation and scientific pattern recognition, not projection of anything but knowledge.
Personally, I know of no scientific analyses of scientific data from neuroscience that critiques the findings, original and subsequent to the one I just mentioned, that find those studies flawed because they only looked at folk of senior years. You might want to observe that your analysis of the situation here amounts only to your opinion an that is what you use as a smoke screen to hide facts you find unpleasant to face.
When you deal with the conservative brain and facts they find unpleasant and try to pin them down, they always wiggle away with a wave of the hand, poo pooing the information as wrong and unimportant, irrelevant, etc. You use a defective apparatus, one designed to keep you blind, when you think you see the truth. In order to have any chance at all to see, you have to die to the pride of ego. You need deep humility. You would have to have a natural feeling that the time required to study scientific information isn't trivially wasted and beneath your dignity. You have to want to know.
When I was young I wanted to prove that life is good so badly that I destroyed everything illusion I had or could find that propped up that belief. I just couldn't pretend. The result in case you fear the same fate was that I died and went to heaven. There is no good or evil anywhere, there is only perfect being. When love pours out of the soul it also pours in. Oh my Beloved, wherever I look it appears to be Thou. Same, of course is true for you, if you let go.
Naturally this happens and has happened to people countless times and will always happen as long as people are here. It can be seen in countless myths and allegories. Man has a ton of cabbage and wants to cross a river. He's never going to make it with all that cabbage.
A man with a wolf and a sheep and a cabbage wants to cross a river. In order to do so he will need an extra effort and revelation.
If you want to tea, be sure your cup in empty.
When thieves tried to rob the hut of a monk and were leaving empty handed, he say them and said, too bad I can't give them that moon.
If you have a stick I'll give you one and if you haven't I'll take it away.
When Mulla Nasrudin dropped the key to his house in his bedroom somewhere he went to the yard to search for it, telling the neighbors who came to help the there was more light there.
Yes the key is always in the dark, a darkness we create with our foolish assumptions.
The truth is always 180 degrees from where you look.
The finger pointing at the moon is not the moon.
When Mulla Nasrudin saw a dejected man deep in sorrow walking along the road he ran up and snatched his purse, which he placed in the middle of the road further on. When the man found his purse with his money within, he leapt for joy, because as you see, there's more than one kind of happiness.