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    Default Why are conservatives so easily preyed upon by conspiracy theories?

    Conservatives have a very weak defense for conspiracy theories. Are they just more gullible than liberals or non-conservatives?
    In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Amadeus View Post
    Conservatives have a very weak defense for conspiracy theories. Are they just more gullible than liberals or non-conservatives?
    their whole party platform is based on lies


    they are defined by being gullible to lies

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    Quote Originally Posted by Amadeus View Post
    Conservatives have a very weak defense for conspiracy theories. Are they just more gullible than liberals or non-conservatives?
    Because in a lot of instances they just can't accept the facts if they don't match what they want the facts to be

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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    Because in a lot of instances they just can't accept the facts if they don't match what they want the facts to be
    Facts do have a liberal lean to them (notice how conservatives have been on the wrong side of virtually every major issue from the past 50 years). However, there must be more to it then conservatives not being able to accept reality. Conspiracy theories are often symptoms of a mental illness.
    In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

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    its called fox news


    news lost its corprate twinge and it begain telling real news.

    then the republicans called it slanted


    so they invented Fox news after screaming it was unfair for a decade.


    then they said ONLY listen to fox

    everyone else is lying


    an obvious con man move


    dont listen to ANYONE but me ...everyone else is out to get you.


    immediate and complete control of every idiot stupid enough to buy that line.

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    their whole party platform is based on lies


    they are defined by being gullible to lies
    You believed it was OK for an unqualified black to be President. Why did you believe that lie?

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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    Because in a lot of instances they just can't accept the facts if they don't match what they want the facts to be
    Says the one that thought Obama being black qualified him to be President. Pucker up NL.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Amadeus View Post
    Conservatives have a very weak defense for conspiracy theories. Are they just more gullible than liberals or non-conservatives?
    Yes.

    It is also due to their enlarged amygdalas.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CFM View Post
    Says the one that thought Obama being black qualified him to be President. Pucker up NL.
    Obama was a Harvard Law Professor, Trump ran a fake college. And ironically conning and bilking soft-headed dopes like you was all the qualification he needed to become president. Obama earned the presidency, without Russian interference, and Trump would have no accomplishment as president if he couldn't glory-steal Obama's economic success.
    In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Amadeus View Post
    Obama was a Harvard Law Professor, Trump ran a fake college. And ironically conning and bilking soft-headed dopes like you was all the qualification he needed to become president. Obama earned the presidency, without Russian interference, and Trump would have no accomplishment as president if he couldn't glory-steal Obama's economic success.
    Yet Trump still beat your bitch. That must hurt to know someone you consider an idiot was able to beat someone you also consider smart. If Hillary was smarter, she wouldn't have lost.

    Where are Obama's college records? Lots of claims have been made about him yet no proof of it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CFM View Post
    Where are Obama's college records? Lots of claims have been made about him yet no proof of it.
    Lets see Trump's records. Lets see if he made it into Warton's without his daddy's wallet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Amadeus View Post
    Lets see Trump's records. Lets see if he made it into Warton's without his daddy's wallet.
    Nice try at diversion, coward. Doesn't work with me, NL.

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    Rightists are either cynical scoundrels or hugely ignorant peasants who live in terror of any change and make up drivel (like all the crap about the first president who was only half 'white') to justify their cowardice and love of murdering people with their bang-bangs (I assume we are talking about America - our nutters are conditioned in other ways and, thank God, kept away from guns).

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