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View Poll Results: Do Trump supporters practice willful ignorance?
Yes 66 73.33%
No 24 26.67%
Voters: 90. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 10-13-2016, 01:46 PM
 
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Originally Posted by Old Gringo View Post
"It's like they're proud of their ignorance."

An I am sure old gringos from Florida are much wiser? eh?

 
Old 10-13-2016, 01:49 PM
 
Location: Middle of nowhere
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Some yes, some no. Just like every other group on the planet.
 
Old 10-13-2016, 01:55 PM
 
Location: Type 0.73 Kardashev
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Apparently, almost all of the ones that post online do, yes. They're the 'poll unskewers' from 2012.

People respond to information that they do not like in different ways. The normal response is to do with the demonstrated reality. But some choose to ignore everything they don't want to believe. It's wrong!, they say. It must be fake! The polls are 'oversampling Democrats'! The polls are rigged! Of course, none of that gibberish makes a lick of sense.

They are skilled at the art of self-deception.

And what's really fascinating is that they never learn. 2012 taught them nothing. After reality slaps them upside the head on November 8th, the will learn nothing from that. They will pick up where they left off the next time around.

And why?

Because they're happier being ignorant. They'd rather be perpetually wrong while clinging to their wishful thinking than actually assess the evidence at hand and know what's going on.

It is no coincidence that people such as these are drawn to Donald Trump like moths to a flame.
 
Old 10-13-2016, 01:56 PM
 
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Read this article by psychologists who study the human brain and decision making process
Interesting and clinical research to back it up

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/a-ne...orters-brains/

Clinton supporters are more amenable to new ideas--climate vhange, gay marriage--but not about Clinton herself...

Of course it won't do any good to push it to Trump supporters based on the research but it supports the idea that Trump Nation won't give up if/when he loses..
That worshippers need a god to feel alive and connected and Trump certainly has no objection to being worshipped...
This is a totally symbiotic relationship but unlike the shark/remora symbiotic relationship where they both benefit ( the remora feeds on parasites on the shark it is attached to and the shark stays parasite-free), the people feeding Trump's ego by their fervent support, funding his movement to some extent, those people are going to be victims of his actions/policies if elected now or in the future--because Trump cannot really lead in a democracy where the president works as 1/3 of the governing agencies. He can't stand being thwarted in any way, listens to no voice that diverges from his desires, and is a bully in just about any way possible.

With his comments about being cheated out of the election, lying polls showing him losing, and a left-wing conspiracy to take him and his followers down he is planting seeds that really could grow into a much more dangerous threat to America than "radical Islamic terrorism"...

You might think I am hyping up his chances, but just remember most Germans and other world politicians and common people thought Hitler was a joke, a non-entity, someone with a big ego, thugs for followers, and no hope of ruling Germany. History repeats because people don't learn and people rarely change...
 
Old 10-13-2016, 01:56 PM
 
Location: Texas
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An I am sure old gringos from Florida are much wiser? eh?
The fact that they're in FL instead of TX doesn't speak well for them.

Q: Why does TX have so many donkeys while FL has so many Yankee retirees?

A: TX got first choice.

Carry on.

 
Old 10-13-2016, 01:56 PM
 
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Pretty silly question. There are good and bad people on both sides of the spectrum. Most people want some of the same things, good economy, treated fairly, protection for our country, opportunity to be successful, freedom for worship, etc. Each person has their priorities. I don't pretend to support several of the things that Trump says or believe in, but I certainly dislike HRC positions even more. For me hot buttons are tax policy, immigration, and foreign affairs. Painting people into big buckets and calling them ignorant is pretty childish.
I think it's a pretty apt question actually. And I'm not calling all of them ignorant. The title of the thread is about "willful ignorance" which is a completely different thing from being ignorant. Everyone is ignorant to some degree, actually to a very large degree. But being willfully ignorant is a trait that not everyone shares. Trump supporters that rag on Bill Clinton's supposed indiscretions (even though he is not even running for president) and yet dismiss Trumps own indiscretions even if they came from his own mouth is a prime example of willful ignorance.
 
Old 10-13-2016, 02:03 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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I think it's a pretty apt question actually. And I'm not calling all of them ignorant. The title of the thread is about "willful ignorance" which is a completely different thing from being ignorant. Everyone is ignorant to some degree, actually to a very large degree. But being willfully ignorant is a trait that not everyone shares. Trump supporters that rag on Bill Clinton's supposed indiscretions (even though he is not even running for president) and yet dismiss Trumps own indiscretions even if they came from his own mouth is a prime example of willful ignorance.
The guy has sex with his intern in the Oval Office, violates her with a cigar, leaves his semen on her dress and you call this a supposed indiscretion. YOU are a poster child for willful ignorance.
 
Old 10-13-2016, 02:07 PM
 
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The guy has sex with his intern in the Oval Office, violates her with a cigar, leaves his semen on her dress and you call this a supposed indiscretion. YOU are a poster child for willful ignorance.
It is an indiscretion but a consensual one at least. And again Bill Clinton is not running for president.

Trumps are not consensual. That's why Anderson Cooper at the debate asked if Trump realized that his own words were forms of sexual harassment.
 
Old 10-13-2016, 02:07 PM
 
Location: Bella Vista, Ark
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Prepare for "Do Hillary supporters practice willful ignorance?" thread in 3...2...1...
of course and why not? Can the Hillary supporters claim they do not? Believe it or not, a lot of people are voting for Trump in hopes he can make a change, a positive one. It is better than voting for someone who will only make things worse.
 
Old 10-13-2016, 02:08 PM
 
Location: Bel Air, California
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duhhh, I duno


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