Krugman being Krugman

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

"There's the great line, of course, about how his "lived experience" (see? I told you, he's doing empirical work!) confirms that motivated cognition "is not, in fact, symmetric between liberals and conservatives.

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That Krugman is too thick to see that one can't infer anything about the quality of partisans' reasoning from the truth or falsity of their beliefs is ... another element of Krugman's proof that ideological reasoning is symmetric across right and left!"

Comments

[goumindong.livejournal.com]

Jeffe, like many conservatives, believe that there is a group of "hippies" which make up the left and that the organized left is secretly part of that group rather than well what everyone else knows the organized left is.

[peristaltor.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh. So those were the guys talking quietly in the corner of the Grateful Dead concerts while everyone else was tripping on 'shrooms and pretending the music didn't suck.

I always wondered what those guys were doing.

Got it! Thanks!