Critical thinking skills: Who here has them?

I am asking for you to state an significant issue where you think conservatives make a valid point.

Critical thinking is the ability to question your own beliefs and to see the weaknesses in the arguments made by your own side.

While conservatives and liberals were similarly confident in scientists as recently as the 1980s, conservatives' views have since dimmed dramatically — a trend that new research says resulted largely from moral conservatives' move to identify with the political right.

In a paper published March 17 in Social Forces, author Austin Kozlowski analyzed responses to NORC's General Social Survey between 1984 and 2016, and found that people with conservative moral views differ starkly from economic conservatives in their skepticism of the scientific community. These moral conservatives, he said, drove much of the ideological divide over science as they identified increasingly as political conservatives.

That shift, which was accompanied by weakening scientific confidence among economic conservatives, shows the importance of understanding how different ideological factions come together to shape the dynamics of political polarization, according to Kozlowski.

His findings "strongly suggest that opposition to the scientific community is not a universal characteristic of the 'political conservative' identity, nor is it strongly associated with economically conservative ideology," he wrote. "Rather, it is predominantly concentrated within the morally conservative faction of self-identifying political conservatives."

"Understanding the political polarization of science and its development over time thus requires careful attention to the distinct strands of conservatism and their changing relationships," he added.

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"I argue that the long-standing anti-scientist sentiment of moral conservatives became organized under the label of political conservatism in the late twentieth century as key historic developments reshaped American conservatism into a bastion of moral traditionalism," he wrote.

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The point of this thread is to ask if you can recognize times when the other side of the political divide makes valid points.

at all but simply a game.

I showed how a bunch of conservative points can be seen as "valid".

If you don't wan't to play "the game", then why are you here?

I don't see a single example from you.

Conservatives make a valid point when they decry mob violence associated with protests against the police — I have no doubt that they are sincere, but I don't believe they are applying "critical thinking skills".

Conservatives make a valid point when they try to suppress voting turnout because it makes it easier for them to win elections. Which is correct, i.e. valid, but it doesn't reflect "critical thinking skills".

Conservatives make a valid point when they try to marginalize BLGTQ individuals. They don't like them, they don't want to share their communities with them, so they have a valid point, just not one that exhibits "critical thinking skills".

( 1 ) an attitude of being disposed to consider in a thoughtful way the problems and subjects that come within the range of one's experiences, (2) knowledge of the methods of logical inquiry and reasoning, and (3) some skill in applying those methods.

Can you do this for me?

These aren't your sincere beliefs.

These aren't your sincere beliefs.

They are conservative beliefs validated by the moral principles they hold.

An ideology is not a fact.

You base your ideology on your political values, and your group identity.

And, many facts stated by conservatives and ignored by liberals are, in fact, correct.

You and Neptune are putting ideology first ahead of facts.

You accept any fact that supports your ideological narrative, you reject or ignore any fact that supports a conservative narrative.

1) I believe the conservatives make a valid point about free-speech.

2) I believe conservatives made a valid point about religious liberty.

3) I believe that conservatives have valid points about the rapid societal change around ideas about gender.

You are insulting conservatives to score points in your partisan battle.

The conservatives say that liberals want to kill Black babies, and shoot cops.

You aren't making any real attempt to step out of your ideological bubble.

I agreed with Trump when he said "The cure can't be worse than the disease".

The worst things in history have happened when people stop thinking for themselves, especially when they allow themselves to be influenced by negative people. That's what gives rise to dictators. Avoid that at all costs. Stop it first on a personal level, and you will have contributed to world sanity as well as your own.

Secretly many Democratic leaders are following Trump's principle and arguing for a controlled reopening that considers economic needs as important.

When you deny facts because of who they come from, you are denying facts.

We are in this idea where any show of accepting facts from the opposition is punished.