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(4,769 posts)So many problems are not addressed because people don't think critically or objectively. Whether it's evolution, global warming, the lies about economics told daily on Fox, etc., bigotry, religious zealotry, excusing police brutality or getting into stupid wars. People hold onto illusions that they should be ashamed of - and they do so sometimes violently.
Most of the right now hold many ideas that shape policy, that are demonstrably untrue. Many problems could be fixed if we demanded as much from adults, as we do from a seven year old told there is no Santa. And even though it is mostly the right, some of the left cannot be let off the hook. The reaction that some have to the NSA spying is a good example. Unbelievable the anger from some when confronted with facts they don't like. Same with overpopulation. Some on the left refuse to believe an obvious truth because they think it's all about over-consumption. As if the two are mutually exclusive. Makes me ill. All of it .