You’re kinda on to something.

In my late-stage activism, I have been studying neurology, and i’m convinced that conservatives are people who don’t have abstraction/language skills to be able to think critically… however, what the brain does best is invent stories. It’s all it does actually, it writes stories to explain your feelings and experiences, and those stories don’t have to be logical or make sense, it just tries to string together any old wild narrative to make things connect… this is where depressive rumination comes from, which CBT tries to treat and stop, and this is also where conspiracy theories come from.

Conservatives are highly emotional, so their stories are WILD and unpredictable, and this is why they seem to be able to hold so many conflicting ideas at once. It would be genuinely fascinating if they didn’t want to kill us all 😶