[pitaj]

> They have seized total political power. These pathologies inform Donald Trump, his children, the Brett Kavanaughs, and the billionaires who run his administration.

Ah yes because the _impoverished_ Democrats are fighting for the common man! It's only with the current administration that the "uber-rich" have taken over.

Give me a break. Partisan hacks are ruining political discourse, and framing everything as the end of the world isn't helping either.

The inability of the left to interpret the actions of the right as anything but _evil_ only makes people perceive them as more out-of-touch and pretentious. Studies have shown that rightists (for lack of a better term) are more analytical and understand the positions of the opposition better than those on the left.

[sharkmerry]

Can you link some of those studies? Would love to read them

[pitaj]

Conservatives understand liberals better than the reverse

[1]: https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/liberals-conserva... [2]: https://theindependentwhig.com/haidt-passages/haidt/conserva...

Rightists are more analytical

[3]: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-28/study-of-... [4]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322862039_Cognitive...

[zen_of_prog]

Link [3] is about libertarians being more analytical. From the article:

> Democrats/liberals measure as somewhat more analytical than Republicans/conservatives