Maiman spent 30 years in media as both a radio broadcaster and as a news and opinion writer for both radio and print, including Yahoo, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sacramento Bee and other McClatchy properties and numerous local outlets. I currently work for the United States Postal Service.
from two very small groups. Just six people per group, and not a sample of the electorate overall, but remarkable in the impression you get from their responses, or at least the impression I got.
A scary thought here is that those folks may not even know how unaware they are. Instead of willfully ignorant, a choice, they’re unwittingly ignorant — ignorant of their ignorance. Or, ignorance is bliss. And again, not necessarily because they’re stupid.For example, because Trump’s trial was so top of mind, perhaps they heard the first policy issue out of Trump’s mouth following his conviction: immigration and Biden having failed at the border.
I asked: How is that any different than Trump getting lawmakers to quash a bipartisan border bill earlier this year to prevent Biden from getting an election-year win so Trump would have a campaign issue?. That’s the fallacy of defending one’s position while refusing to consider immutable contradictory facts to the contrary. “I don’t care what the experts say; no one is going to convince me that I’m wrong.
However, in her 2008 book “The Age of American Unreason,” scholar Susan Jacoby noted a disturbing cultural shift: the belittling of intelligence.
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