Does REALITY have a left-leaning bias? Some polls seem to suggest YES.
In research constructed by Frank Graves, a professor at Carlton University, respondents were given a series of questions to test how much or how little they believed in things. It turned out that the people who most strongly believed disinformation where far and away more likely to be planning to vote Conservative or PPC while those with low level of believing disinformation tended to be split more between Liberal and NDP.
How about that, eh? Turns out reality has a left-leaning bias!
[quote]“For this research, we tested four separate indicators of disinformation and we have constructed a disinformation index, a 12-point scale that measures how strongly respondents have bought into three pieces of disinformation and how strongly they reject one piece of correct information:
- Canada’s economic growth lags well behind the G7 average; - Vaccine-related deaths are being concealed from the public; - The right to bear arms is guaranteed in Canada’s constitution; and - Climate change is caused by greenhouse gas emissions”[/quote]
The right-wing establishment kinda has to be anti-reality. The alternative is that they just telling working-class people that they want to make the workers as poor as possible. That doesn't sell, so instead they have to invent alternative realities about how welfare actually make people worse off.
