You’re not making me feel isolated, rejected, guilty, or generally bad.
You’re feeding into the confirmation bias I already have about how the opposition thinks, which only serves to affirm the choice I made.
You’re feeding into the confirmation bias I already have about how the opposition thinks, which only serves to affirm the choice I made.
It's wild that you acknowledge your cognitive bias and then blame others for it instead of working on it. If I wrote something like that, I hope I would have the wherewithal to notice that something is seriously wrong with my thinking.
I’m illustrating how the original behavior feeds confirmation bias instead of establishing a basis for constructive dialog.
You cannot have constructive dialog about astronomy with someone who thinks the sky is made of green and purple polkadots because that's what someone told them, and dismiss all evidence to the contrary as a massive conspiracy.
They don't even believe in democracy or constitutional rights - at least, for anyone but them.
Even many in the opposition agrees with many of his goals (control immigration, protect American industries, shrink the government).