Zuby

So there's just a level of, you could call it IQ, you could call it intelligence, processing power, whatever it is.

And that's one point.

The second one, which is a major one, especially when it comes to anything sociopolitical, is just the influence of emotion.

So you have people who are, you know, they could be of average or even of high intelligence.

But they're so emotional that the emotions supersede their rationality and their logic and their thinking.

So, for example, there are people where they just hear the word Trump and it triggers them.

Literally, you could probably measure that their body temperature increases and their heart rate increases just by the mention of the word Trump.

OK, and if someone gets triggered by that, then whatever comes next, their emotions are clouding their judgment.

It doesn't even matter.

Like you could probably make up like if there's someone who hates Trump, for example, to that degree, you could probably just completely make up something that he claimed he did or said something that's completely crazy.

And they won't bother to look it up.

They won't bother to fact check it.

They will just 100 percent be like, oh, my gosh, that's crazy.

I can't believe he did it.

He's blah, blah, blah.

Right.

Because it affirms what they already believe.

And it makes them emotionally feel good to kind of go on that rant.

The idea that they could agree with something that he did or that he could do something good or whatever like that causes this cognitive dissonance.

And so there's a part of it which is just people.