Jim Baker above hit the nail on the head. Most of my liberal friends (which is almost all of them) have leftist philosophy so ingrained from 16+ years of formal “education” that any questioning of that philopsophy seems to them like utter nonsense.
For instance, tell them that there is scientific evidence out there that our effect on our changing climate may indeed be negligible and what we’re looking at is the result of natural cycles in the Earth and the sun and they will tell you that not only didn’t they hear that, but it “obviously” can’t be true. Manmade global cooli- I mean warmi- I mean “climate change” is a self-evident “fact.”
Why?
Well, they’ve been told so since the third grade. And ironically, the message has changed in the last generation from cooling to warming (when I was in school) to the current term “change” – and they don’t see anything wrong with that.
And I don’t even put to them that the changing message is evidence that the scientists don’t know what the hell they’re doing…I merely suggest that the shifting means there’s stuff they still haven’t figured out and introduces the possibility of a margin of error.
I even put to one of my science teachers that the entire system for neighborhood recycling may do more environmental harm than good. Her reply? “Well, it’s important to do *some*thing.”
Nope…no room for conflicting evidence or independent thought, just pass the Kool-Aid and tell me what to think.
