My beliefs are real because my feelings say so

Ain't it grand how often the religious right tries to paste over evidence-based fact with belief? "I believe that my subjective truth is the only valid position anyone can take on any issue, and it enrages me that anyone could think otherwise."

Any time "faith" is conflated with "fact", I am forced to conclude that the offending party doesn't quite grasp the purpose of language.

I was reading some studies the other day on how liberalism is actually a mental illness. It makes so much more sense now. If you’ve ever tried to have a conversation with a liberal, you know they will fight to the death for their beliefs, and in the face of evidence, facts, and data that refute entirely that believe.

It’s one of the most infuriating experiences I’ve ever had trying to have a conversation with someone who identifies as “liberal”.

However, the Buddha did talk about this, of course. He noted that people who have strong emotional beliefs, wrong be-LIE-fs, when faced with evidence, facts and data that refute their claim, will actually dig their heels in deeper to said false beliefs.

You're 100% correct about some of 1/2 of the population.

The symptomology you describe belongs to the mental disorder "certitude", characterized by a based closed-mindedness and hostility to opposing viewpoints. It knows no political affiliation. Litigating the views espoused in any political stream can demonstrate this.

I’m sitting here literally laughing out loud while metaphorically crying at the same time.
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Like the Marque de Sade (at least as portrayed in Quills), I write far more than I read. Of the smattering of political memes I've actually looked at I think only 1 or 2 were driveby fecal smearings. I don't know from which side of the tracks they hail, but it all strikes me as two rival ant colonies going at it. Just an indistinguishable mass ruining an otherwise pleasant picnic in the park.