alt Hacker NewsWhy do you think people voted these idiots in? In large part it's due to a distrust of science and rationality, "the system of the elites". Don't tell me that I need to vaccinate my kids! I'll cure my pancreatic cancer naturopathologically.
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antiration • last Friday at 7:17 PM
You can certainly side with Descartes and believe in rationalism, or you can study David Hume and understand those beliefs for what they are.
You can still have and respect beliefs, but distinguishing fact from belief is purely in the realm of philosophical debate. That doesn’t mean you have to accept absence of absolute truth or facts, but there is much we don’t know and that we think we know but we don’t, and that is logical and illogical. Life is dichotomy.
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> Why do you think people voted these idiots in?
In my unbroken experience, they possess a demonstrated ability to believe in trivially disproven lies.