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CMV: Progressive and conservative bubbles operate in a nearly identical way.

My view is that conservatives and progressives (or republicans and democrats) both have a tendency toward tribalism and living in a bubble, and they pretty much use all of the same strategies for keeping themselves separate, believing they alone are right, and discrediting "others".

Some of these patterns include:

1. Assuming the moral high ground. Dehumanizing people who see things differently; a republican is "a fascist" or a democrat is "a communist", which justifies violent actions against them.

2. Identifying the in-group through social cues. Hairstyles, clothing, vehicles, behaviors, and more. Choosing symbols that let other people know how they identify, and feeling more comfortable when among their own type.

3. Adherence to political dogma: holding on to their party lines so firmly that it prevents them from seeing reality objectively.

4. Susceptibility to logical fallacies - confirmation bias, straw man, no true scotsman. News stories being skewed to support their perspective; believing in exaggerated versions of what their opponents are like; refusing to acknowledge failures in their own party.

5. Emphasizing belief more than actions. Judging their peers based on which politician they support on voting day and ignoring the rest of the beneficial or harmful things they do on a daily basis.

6. Being able to dish it out, but not take it. Thinking you should be able to spout your own perspective without people on the other side having any kind of reaction, and taking their reaction as evidence of their instability or inferiority, when the reality is that you would also have a reaction too if the situation was reversed.

7. Thinking that good things can only happen if you defeat the other side. "Politics have ground to a halt because this other party is always obstructing and resisting, and we need them out of the way"; "Democrats/Republicans are destroying this country"

8. Wanting personal freedom on some things, and government control on other things. Republicans want more freedom on economic decisions and democrats want more social freedoms. But they both want certain things restricted for the good of society.

9. They both want the world to be a good place to live for everybody. Nobody *wants* people to be poor or suffering, but they disagree on what's the root cause of the problem and how to fix it.

10. Condemning the policies of the other side for being harmful, but being willing to dismiss possible harm caused by their own policies.

11. Feeling a duty to speak up even when the timing is not appropriate for the situation, eg. starting a political debate at a family holiday dinner and encouraging other members of the group to do the same with their families.

12. Assuming that innocuous actions performed by the other side are actually motivated by something wrong and untrustworthy just because of their politics.

13. Believing that people who listen to the media of the other side are being fed a bunch of lies, but the media sources on their own side are reliable.

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I will award a delta if you can convince me that one side or the other is more susceptible to these fallacies, or that one of these points (or one I haven't mentioned) is used almost exclusively by one side.

I'm not interested in political debate as to which side is more correct in their views. I'm only focused on the social behavior of "us vs. them" that political devotees experience, perhaps similar to what is encouraged by religion, nationalism, or even being a fan of a certain sports team.

I also recognize that not everybody who holds progressive or conservative values falls into these traps, but I believe it happens roughly equally on both sides.

I am not saying that people shouldn't have political views, only that they should be aware of the potential for developing a warped sense of reality and engaging in tribalistic behaviors.
gpt
>Believing that people who listen to the media of the other side are being fed a bunch of lies, but the media sources on their own side are reliable.

This part is somewhat different.  Left wingers can completely tune out right wing media except for occasional outrageous soundbites.  Right wingers can't do that.  They may believe that many stories are exaggerated or buried by left leaning sources but they still get a lot of their information from left leaning sources and indeed will cite/link them without hesitation as being factual.