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<blockquote data-quote="refineryworker05" data-source="post: 4718605" data-attributes="member: 66082"><p>The reason why republican voters collectively believe a fk ton of conspiracy theories isn&#039;t because I think individual democratic voters believe fewer conspiracies.&nbsp; It is due to the nature of the republican and democratic parties and voters.&nbsp; Republican elected officials at the national level don&#039;t really discuss policy because most of their policies are unpopular, so their appeal to voters imo is cultural grievance and distrust of government that helps and empowers people republican voters believe to be undeserving.&nbsp; And because republicans don&#039;t really want their policies discussed in specifics, they started telling their voters that the media was out to get republicans and couldn&#039;t be trusted and that the only sources to trust concerning republicans or their policies were other republicans.&nbsp; This caused republican voters to have way fewer trusted sources of information which creates a warped relation to political reality that is tailor made for self reinforcing conspiracy bs.&nbsp; Also republican voters are very homogenous and share a much more homogenous outlook on American society so there are fewer identity based cross pressures that cause republican voters to reject the republican party line.&nbsp; those factors do not exist to the same degree for Democratic voters.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="refineryworker05, post: 4718605, member: 66082"] The reason why republican voters collectively believe a fk ton of conspiracy theories isn't because I think individual democratic voters believe fewer conspiracies. It is due to the nature of the republican and democratic parties and voters. Republican elected officials at the national level don't really discuss policy because most of their policies are unpopular, so their appeal to voters imo is cultural grievance and distrust of government that helps and empowers people republican voters believe to be undeserving. And because republicans don't really want their policies discussed in specifics, they started telling their voters that the media was out to get republicans and couldn't be trusted and that the only sources to trust concerning republicans or their policies were other republicans. This caused republican voters to have way fewer trusted sources of information which creates a warped relation to political reality that is tailor made for self reinforcing conspiracy bs. Also republican voters are very homogenous and share a much more homogenous outlook on American society so there are fewer identity based cross pressures that cause republican voters to reject the republican party line. those factors do not exist to the same degree for Democratic voters. [/QUOTE]

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