I always believed we could learn.
Perhaps we can, but we rarely do.
I thought right wingers wore blinders.
They do, but we liberals do too.

Psychologist Drew Weston showed we
choose pleasant over unpleasant facts:
“…partisans twirl the cognitive kaleidoscope
until they get the conclusions they want.”

I thought I spread political insights
like fertilizer on fields of healthy crops,
but one plant’s nourishment is another’s
bull shit and ignorance is bliss.

(Quotation from How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer)

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