re: Do you think the US will inevitably become more liberal after Trump

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The pendulum always swings back and forth pretty regularly, that won't really change significantly

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Thats true. It should start to swing back to liberal in about 40 years..so theres that to look forward to.

I think they will be liberal but they will have a lot more common sense and the Liberals we see now will be look upon with the same views as KKK or those that wanted Segregation back in the Jim Crow Era.

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Do you think the US will inevitably become more liberal after Trump

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yes, and it has nothing to do with Trump. it has to do with access to information.

people here arent gonna like this but ONE REASON conservatism thrived in the past was because people simply believed what they were told as children and there was no easy way to learn different points of view. today its much easier to question those things.

EXAMPLE: guess which group knows the most about religion?

the answer is atheists.

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So why would an atheist know more about religion than a Christian?

American atheists and agnostics tend to be people who grew up in a religious tradition and consciously gave it up, often after a great deal of reflection and study...

"These are people who thought a lot about religion. They're not indifferent. They care about it."

Atheists and agnostics also tend to be relatively well educated, and, not surprisingly, that the most knowledgeable people were also the best educated. However, it said that atheists and agnostics also outperformed believers who had a similar level of education.

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the more people know, the faster they are to reject what they were told as children and make up their own opinions. this is one reason the number of atheists and agnostics in well educated parts of the world is increasing so quickly.

60 percent of Berlin is now atheist.

over half of Canada now thinks religion does more harm than good.

the trend in Europe has them on pace to lose 100 million Christians between 2010 and 2050. by then roughly 25 percent will be atheist.

as for America, in 2004, 90 percent of U.S. adults said they believed in God. By 2007, the percentage dropped to 86 percent. This year, its down to 79 percent.

most polls say atheists only make up 3 to 11 percent of Americans, but theres reason to believe the real number is closer to 26 percent.

the defining trait of the mind of a conservative is a fear of change and the desire for things to stay the same.

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"The common basis for all the various components of the conservative attitude syndrome is a generalized susceptibility to experiencing threat or anxiety in the face of uncertainty,” the British psychologist G.D. Wilson wrote ... In other words, an innate fear of uncertainty tends to correlate to people’s level of conservatism.

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they focus on the negative...

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...political conservatives have a “negativity bias,” meaning that they are physiologically more attuned to negative (threatening, disgusting) stimuli in their environments.

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this literally gets hard-wired into the brain. physically.

one study...

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Peering inside the brain with MRI scans, researchers at University College London found that self-described conservative students had a larger amygdala than liberals. The amygdala is an almond-shaped structure deep in the brain that is active during states of fear and anxiety. Liberals had more gray matter at least in the anterior cingulate cortex, a region of the brain that helps people cope with complexity.

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another...

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...what’s been found in several studies is that liberals tend to have a larger anterior cingulate gyrus. That is an area that is responsible for taking in new information and that impact of the new information on decision making or choices. Conservatives tended on the whole to have a larger right amygdala. Amygdala being a deeper brain structure that processes more emotional information—specifically fear-based information"

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older people are already set in their ways, younger people arent. they have easy access to information and can learn new things. when they do, those old fears go away. they become their own person, and that person is usually liberal.

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Objective and observable reality don't seem to be your friends.

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the half dozen peer-reviewed studies i just linked say otherwise.

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Peer reviewed "studies" on predicting the future psychology of 320 million people?? Thats funny.

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a prediction (a word which i never said, btw) is made "on the basis of observation, experience, or scientific reason." in this case it's very well documented trends.

if i wrote...

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based on that trend, what do you think the next number would be?

if you think it's impossible to know, then that says a great deal about you.

if you look at the 50 counties/parishes with the smallest percentage of people with 4-year college degrees, trump won 47 out of the 50, and did 30 percent better than Romney 4 years earlier.

among the 50 counties/parishes with the highest percentage of 4-year college graduates, he won 2 of the 50.

interpret that anyway you like.

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he defining trait of the mind of a conservative is a fear of change and the desire for things to stay the same

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Holy shite. There are people out there that actually believe this shite. I'm not saying that the study you cited is a crock of shite but it's a crock of shite.

Melt

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Yep, conservatives are demanding safe spaces and trigger warnings at college campuses, constantly finding new examples of "unfair" privileges that should be penalized, and trying to shut down the expression of dissenting views. Oh wait.

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I also heard those negative bias are leading conservatives to attempt mass assassinations of democratic lawmakers.......oh wait

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the half dozen peer-reviewed studies i just linked say otherwise.

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I can cherry pick studies to make any point I want. Jonathan Haidt has published peer reviewed work showing that conservatives are more open minded and better able to understand opposing viewpoints.

If conservatives are fearful and liberals are rational, then we would have seen very different results in recent elections. All you have to do is look at the Democrats the last few cycles. It was always a monster under the bed. War on Women, throw granny off a cliff, muh Russians. Romney campaigned on fixing the economy. Trump, when he wasn't doing the Don Rickles act, campaigned on fixing well documented economic and foreign policy problems. So the best political consultants in the country disagree with those studies.

Nah.
The media and social media universe would like us to think 99% of the country hates Trump and conservatism but that's false.
They are trying to silence us and scare us.