Yes a lot of Americans believe those things, because there is an entire economic sector devoted to telling Republicans what they want to hear, presented as news/facts.
We all seek information that confirms our biases, and conservatives are ruled by their fear, largely of the other: People that don’t look or act what they consider normal and safe. They don’t want to hear its their employer that’s been screwing them for decades, that would make them feel foolish, they want to hear about how all their problems are caused by the people that don’t look like them be it race or the the people they think dress wrong to them.
Simple explanations for simple, fearful people. The world and it’s many crises are obviously more complex than those false explanations of “Those brown people did it!” but confirmation bias is a hell of a drug.
Yes a lot of Americans believe those things, because there is an entire economic sector devoted to telling Republicans what they want to hear, presented as news/facts.
These are fearful people.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201612/fear-and-anxiety-drive-conservatives-political-attitudes
We all seek information that confirms our biases, and conservatives are ruled by their fear, largely of the other: People that don’t look or act what they consider normal and safe. They don’t want to hear its their employer that’s been screwing them for decades, that would make them feel foolish, they want to hear about how all their problems are caused by the people that don’t look like them be it race or the the people they think dress wrong to them.
Simple explanations for simple, fearful people. The world and it’s many crises are obviously more complex than those false explanations of “Those brown people did it!” but confirmation bias is a hell of a drug.