January 28, 2017

The butcher’s bill has come due: President Donald Trump is about to victimize his own voters

http://www.salon.com/2017/01/20/the-butchers-bill-has-come-due-president-donald-trump-is-about-to-victimize-his-own-voters/
"Social scientists have repeatedly shown the ways that American voters reason backward from their conclusions and ignore inconvenient information. The vast majority of Trump voters received their information from Fox News: Disinformation and lies are taken as truth; the phenomenon of circular and self-limiting knowledge that social scientists call “epistemic closure” creates right-wing political zombies. Racism, authoritarianism, bigotry and ethnocentrism are a toxic (and politically intoxicating) mix."