2020 Election MEGAthread

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Originally Posted by BlackBellamy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Democrats report much higher levels of trust in a number of news sources than Republicans

Both Republicans and Democrats trust their sources more and distrust the others sources. That would be obvious.

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1) Republicans have a much broader "trust" distribution. For example a Republican will trust Fox and other right-wing outlets moderately AND they will also lightly trust left-wing outlets. But Democrats will highly trust left-wing outlets and do not trust right-wing outlets at all.

2) Democrats trust 'their' sources very highly. Republicans have light to moderate levels of distrust for 'their' sources.

So according to Pew, Democrats are gullible and only listen to demagogues, while Republicans are skeptical yet broad-minded.

I'm trying to read this some other way. I'm trying to be broad-minded.

BB, have you read The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt? It fleshes out your idea and expands on it in great detail. You're essentially right about Lefties being much more focused on a list of narrow things and righties having a much broader approach to life.

It's a great read for anyone, it's a lib righting about why righties win elections more and more. Righties appeal to more values.