Post by merh on Jul 26, 2018 6:16:26 GMT
And he's a liar.
They covered him on Vice. The reporter brought up his tweet 6 days before the election accusing the Clintons of running a pedophilia ring-did he actually believe the Clintons did that?
No. They knew Anthony Wiener. He's a pedophile. Guilt by association.
He has found an audience he is selling to. Simple as that.
In his way, another performer like Alex Jones. Remember Jones claiming during his divorce it was an act?
But if we can see through his BS then why cant other people? Even the dumbest hick in the world knows BS when its being shoveled at him... right?
I can say this: I don't make up my mind on anything just because it comes from someone who is supposedly "on my side of the fence". For example, I don't automatically believe a Democrat just because I lean liberal. That leads to making poorly examined choices. And I don't dis-like Trump just because he's a Republican. I dis-like him because of who he is as a person. I would disagree with him on politics but I wouldn't dis-like him as a person.
Do that many people in the world (in this country) lived such UN-examined lives that they'll believe any old thing just because it comes from someone that is supposedly "like them"?
People also tend to interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing position. Biased search, interpretation and memory have been invoked to explain attitude polarization (when a disagreement becomes more extreme even though the different parties are exposed to the same evidence), belief perseverance (when beliefs persist after the evidence for them is shown to be false), the irrational primacy effect (a greater reliance on information encountered early in a series) and illusory correlation (when people falsely perceive an association between two events or situations).
A series of psychological experiments in the 1960s suggested that people are biased toward confirming their existing beliefs. Later work re-interpreted these results as a tendency to test ideas in a one-sided way, focusing on one possibility and ignoring alternatives. In certain situations, this tendency can bias people's conclusions. Explanations for the observed biases include wishful thinking and the limited human capacity to process information. Another explanation is that people show confirmation bias because they are weighing up the costs of being wrong, rather than investigating in a neutral, scientific way. However, even scientists can be prone to confirmation bias.[2]
Confirmation biases contribute to overconfidence in personal beliefs and can maintain or strengthen beliefs in the face of contrary evidence. Poor decisions due to these biases have been found in political and organizational contexts
They can watch the news of their choice which confirms their vision of the world.
