• agent_flounder@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    The type of people who look to authorities for an opinion either don’t want or know how to find answers for themselves: by questioning claims, gathering and evaluating evidence and information, adjusting their mental models, and formulating their own conclusions. This is the model for some denominations of Christianity. I wouldn’t be surprised if most of them were raised in that kind of setting.

    I don’t think all regressives and conservatives are like this, necessarily. The leadership in many cases are simply sociopaths exploiting these incurious people’s authoritarian tendencies.

    But anyway, like the AZ guy who thinks the deep state is a bunch of Marxists, I can tell he has never bothered to learn anything about Marxism on his own and so he can’t validate this claim because he doesn’t even know what Marxist policies or rhetoric would even look like. I bet he doesn’t even think to question his view. And maybe he doesn’t even care to do so.