Why does blind faith in a political affiliation over-rule rationality and common sense?

its funny how we hurl insults at each other.. then expect the other person to want to reasonably debate the subject.. or even try to see eye to eye..

been called a nazi too many times because i dont wanna see money wasted ? oO

time for talk is over..

Inbred commie liberal. Get it right.

Because humans opt for what's easy, shortcuts.

You have two options, one is to accept a person is far more than a single opinion or interaction, understand their point of view and share ours with an open mind.

Or dismiss them because we've already decided what's right and wrong and gotten emotionally invested in that distinction, it makes people feel safe, dualist thinking just like our ancestors.

For our ancestors, that speed in decision making had a survival function. It was very essential to distinguish good and bad; life threatening and not life threatening. The fear was purposeful.

I think people are innately tribalistic and the best way to separate yourself from the other is to pretend that they are inherently different from you.

So liberals are evil commies and conservatives are evil rednecks and everybody gets to feel like they're the good guys without having to accept the fact that we're all just people most of whom are working to the good. We just happen to have different ideas of how to get there.

as one ages we see the general trends of political parties in and out of power. The two major parties in the US both suck but one is generally less awful than the other for most of us. I will always vote a straight party line and nothing the other party has to say means anything to me because, in over fifty years of watching them and listening to them I know they are pathological liars.

Blind faith always seems to be non-rational to me, and it never makes sense.

But I also am really troubled about mixing religion with politics.

Supporting your “tribe” is more important than actually thinking about things I guess.