You cannot drive an intelligent thought into their head

Yesterday an individual Kadizzle used to work with wrote a right wing letter to the Bismarck Tribune.  The right wing dinger said climate change is not real unless 100% of scientist agree.  About 6% of scientist disagree.  In every profession you usually have at least 6% idiots.  One day Kadizzle was having a discussion with this particular right wing dinger and getting nowhere.  Kadizzle wondered if actual facts could penetrate the mind of the dinger.  Kadizzle went home and did some research. Kadizzle printed out an article with facts and took it back to the dinger.  Kadizzle made the dinger this offer.  You read this article and highlight anything you disagree with or think is wrong. Give the article back to Kadizzle and Kadizzle will give your church $20.  The dinger declined the offer.  On more than one occasion Kadizzle has offered Republicans money to read something, and they refuse.  The only logical conclusion is they fear reality , and facts.

An amazing thing that often happens with Republicans is they reject a fact if it is not presented by Fox News or Rush.  You can give a Republican a source such as The Economist, or any other highly respected journal, and immediately they call it a liberal rag and refuse to read it.  Two and two added together results in four, regardless of a Republican or Democrat doing the addition.  However, anything that does not agree with the party line is wrong.  All the factual evidence clearly shows trickledown economics has been a massive failure, but that is irrelevant, Republicans believe it just has not had enough time to work.  The rich just don't have enough money yet.  George Bush was unquestionably the worst president in history.  Most intelligent Republican reluctantly admit it, but the hard core never will.  Republicans live in a special world where " If you believe it, it is true ".  If the majority of people believe the northern lights are caused by light reflecting from ice, then that is the cause.  Even though the explanation works, it is wrong, and actually makes no sense, but to a Republican it satisfies the need for an explanation they can understand.  That is the important thing.  If you cannot understand the real explanation which involves science and knowledge, why not just get a simple cheap answer that fills your needs?