Have you seen American righties lately?
I'll tell you what I've seen.
In right wing spheres, I've seen the meme of leftie NPCs. (For those not familiar, an NPC in a computer game is a non-player character, who has a few pre-programmed responses to player character questions and further interaction with the character does not change what they say or produce any new information.) I don't think NPC-ness, however, is any more typical of the left than the right, but NPCs are definitely visible on the left. When you ask them for their reasoning, they tell you to 'go look at Google', as if the burden of proof were on the person skeptical of their claims to prove it for them. They have a ready arsenal of identity-based 'rebuttals' of any argument--"spotted the cis white male"--as if this were somehow an argument.
I find fascinating that the only way that some on the left can conceptualise the right is as mindless automatons (pundit-believing), completely evil, or both. But the mindless automata accusation comes up often, especially on this board. "Stop watching Fox News/stop watching X/stop going to your news aggregator" etc.
I don't mindlessly believe the arguments espoused in every news report I see, or every video I watch, or every news article I read. There may be empirical evidence that people with conservative beliefs are more likely to accept arguments they already agree with from authority figures they respect, but 'accepting arguments you already agree with from authority figures you respect' is something I see plenty of on the left. And even if it did characterise some political orientations more than others, nothing is ever true of everybody from a particular political orientation.
Basically, KeepTalking's comment and Don2's response is typical of the attitude of many left-leaning people on this board. The left claims it has epistemological superiority and critical reasoning superiority.
