Tribal Politics

He could get people to change their position on welfare, 100%, all the way to the other side of the spectrum of policy, just based on what party they were told supported that position. After they said they supported that position, he asked them why they supported that position, and they didn’t say, ‘Because my party does.’ They came up with other reasons. So, after being experimentally induced into holding a position that they actually didn’t agree with, they then came up with reasons that they thought they agreed with that.

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