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

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

You don't think the two party system has an effect on politics. Ok. That's weird, but your right.

[goumindong.livejournal.com]

No. Regionalism does. But the fact that its 2 party doesn't. Coalitions will be formed regardless of labels that individuals place on themselves. Whether we had the republicans and then 30 different parties in a coalition doesn't matter. It would be the same people (see: Regionalism) and they would vote the same way. Wouldn't make a difference that Rand Paul got to call himself a member of the Libertarian party in his campaign literature.