[inigyou]

I read that left-wing people are consistently found to be much more able to process conflicting ideas than right-wing people are.

[consensus1]

40 years of experience has taught me that absolutely no one is less able to process conflicting ideas than left wing people are, and it's not close.

[jolmg]

Political extremes will be extreme. Centrists can hold both.

[inigyou]

AFAIK this generally isn't true. About the centrists, I mean. Most self-identified centrists are just moderate right-wingers.

[jolmg]

It's all relative on a spectrum to one's personal perspective, I imagine. Kind of like how most people might self-identify as middle-class, but wouldn't identify others as such when comparing to themselves.