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The reality of increasing mistrust is warranted in many circumstances however a widespread mistrust of good, honest people is very destructive and as such is
exploited by self-centered, right-wing authoritarian ideologues as Trump and Bannon intent on destroying established order to serve their own selfish ends.

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".. stuck in the conspiracy cesspool with so many others..
One in five US adults condone ‘justified’ political violence, mega-survey finds
As mistrust and alienation from democratic institutions peaks, researchers explore how willing Americans are to commit violence "
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Excerpts from yours:

"They discovered that mistrust and alienation from democratic institutions have reached such a peak that substantial minorities of the American people now endorse violence as a means towards political ends. “The prospect of large-scale violence in the near future is entirely plausible,” the scientists warn.

A hard-core rump of the US population, the survey recorded – amounting to 3% or by extrapolation 7 million people – believe that political violence is usually or always justified. Almost one in four of the respondents – equivalent to more than 60 million Americans – could conceive of violence being justified “to preserve an American way of life based on western European traditions”.

Most alarmingly, 7.1% said that they would be willing to kill a person to advance an important political goal. The UC Davis team points out that, extrapolated to US society at large, that is the equivalent of 18 million Americans.

The study, Views of American Democracy and Society and Support for Political Violence, was led by Garen Wintemute, Sonia Robinson and Andrew Crawford and has been published on the preprint server MedRxiv. Over three weeks beginning on 3 May, the UC Davis researchers gathered the views of a representative sample of 8,620 people nationwide.

The scientists set out to discover just how open individuals in America are to engaging in political violence given the pummeling US democracy has taken in recent years. Extreme political polarization, skepticism about government and democratic institutions, rising gun violence and increased firearms sales, together with the rampant spread of conspiracy theories and misinformation have combined into a toxic soup. "
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Another prominent influence on public views is the “great replacement theory” – the notion that traditional white American society is being supplanted by immigrants of color. The falsehood was invoked by the shooter who killed 10 people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, in May and is a regular talking point of the primetime Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

Your link - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/19/one-in-five-us-adults-condone-political-violence-survey

To link to - As a virologist I’m shocked my work has been hijacked by anti-vaxxers
"A Dozen Misguided Influencers Spread Most of the Anti-Vaccination Content on Social Media"
This board suffers trolls who abuse the privilege of posting here and whose self-debilitating mistrust and abuse of good, honest scientists is extremely damaging to the social fabric of America. Of the world. Every country has these misguided and more times than not also dishonest individuals. The article below is by one of the decent scientists so abused by those described in part above.
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Another part of the appeal of such misinformation is that it restores a sense of agency to people who lack a sense of control over their own lives. It makes people feel part of a “tribe” of those in the know. Every time Twitter or YouTube blocked one of these videos, people commenting on it took it as proof that its misinformation was therefore true.
P - And the fact that these claims are obviously ridiculous and widely condemned by doctors and scientists serves its own purpose. The people most involved in spreading misinformation can claim they and their followers are being oppressed – further isolating those who are susceptible, and creating an online echo chamber.

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Me too. Trusting those who deserve it works better than mistrusting them.
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By bringing all election results into question Trump Republicans are intent on reducing the United States to 3rd world status. Trump in bringing his big lie even to Republican primaries has placed America firmly on that slippery slope. Mistrust is an essential ingredient for success in Trump-world.
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One item from nine years ago, 2013

Political Ideology as Mental Illness
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[Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives
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Back to 2022

GOPERS don't like sciencey shit no how.
Liberals and conservatives don’t just vote differently. They think differently.
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And so I covered the attacks on the established scientific knowledge on climate change, evolution and many more issues as a kind of search for the wealthy bad guys behind the curtain. Like many in Washington, I tended to assume that political differences are either about contrasting philosophies or, more cynically, about money and special interests.
P - There’s just one problem: Mounting scientific evidence suggests that this is a pretty limited way of understanding what divides us. And at a time of unprecedented polarization in America, we need a more convincing explanation for the staggering irrationality of our politics. Especially since we’re now split not just over what we ought to do politically but also over what we consider to be true.
P - Liberals and conservatives have access to the same information, yet they hold wildly incompatible views on issues ranging from global warming to whether the president was born in the United States to whether his stimulus package created any jobs.
P - But it’s not just that: Partisanship creates stunning intellectual contortions and inconsistencies. Republicans today can denounce a health-care reform plan that’s pretty similar to one passed in Massachusetts by a Republican — and the only apparent reason is that this one came from a Democrat.
P - None of these things make sense — unless you view them through the lens of political psychology. There’s now a large body of evidence showing that those who opt for the political left and those who opt for the political right tend to process information in divergent ways and to differ on any number of psychological traits.
P - Perhaps most important, liberals consistently score higher on a personality measure called “openness to experience,” one of the “Big Five” personality traits, which are easily assessed through standard questionnaires.
P - That means liberals tend to be the kind of people who want to try new things, including new music, books, restaurants and vacation spots — and new ideas.
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