Tribal Democrat Almost Has Road to Damascus Moment - Granite Grok

Tribal Democrat Almost Has Road to Damascus Moment

Gadsden FlagA Yale Professor was forced, if only briefly, outside his tiny blue bubble recently.  In the course of analyzing data he made an alarming discovery.  It was alrming to him, at least.

“I’ve got to confess, though, I found this result surprising.  As I pushed the button to run the analysis on my computer, I fully expected I’d be shown a modest negative correlation between identifying with the Tea Party and science comprehension,” Kahan wrote.

What did he find?

…those who identified as part of the tea party movement were actually better versed in science than those who didn’t, Kahan found. The findings met the conventional threshold of statistical significance, the professor said.

“But then again, I don’t know a single person who identifies with the tea party,” he continued. “All my impressions come from watching cable tv — & I don’t watch Fox News very often — and reading the ‘paper’ (New York Times daily, plus a variety of politics-focused Internet sites like Huffington Post and POLITICO). I’m a little embarrassed, but mainly, I’m just glad that I no longer hold this particular mistaken view.”

Yale law professor Dan Kahan is an ideal example of the liberal mind.  He is trapped on a tiny blue island and believes everything the insular progressive tribal leaders and their witch doctors tell him.  “I don’t know a single person who identifies with the tea party…, All my impressions come from cable tv …and reading the paper.” 

It is an ideological-isolation from the real world which infects the ruling class, most Democrats and far too many establishment Republicans.  He is (and they are), literally, part of an elite aristocracy that operates under false assumptions perpetuated within the “tribe” that are no different than any cult mythology whose dogma is concoted to explain, not the truth as it is, but the “truth” that justifies what they insist on beleiving about the world.

Any injection of contrary thought that challenges this progressive dogma is viewed as alien, impossible, even extremist, and must be silenced or extinguished.

The professor, for his part, “…said the results wouldn’t change his negative views of the tea party, he did say he will no longer make assumptions about the level of knowledge on his opponents’ side.”

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