Why conservatives seem more ignorant, according to a viral video

The video that explains why conservatives seem more ignorant

A video by an anonymous American has gone viral on social media: its thesis, presented with data, is that American conservatives fall into a kind of self-induced intellectual atrophy by rejecting the scientific method and academic institutions. The argument has divided the economic analysis community.

The piece, which runs for a few minutes, argues that the American right has abandoned empirical evidence on central issues such as climate science, vaccines, or macroeconomic data, doing so in reaction to the left-wing bias they perceive in universities and the media. The result, according to the author, is that conservatives defend policies that clash with measurable reality.

Critics of the video point out that the problem is not one of intelligence but of trust: if the institutions that produce supposedly objective knowledge are captured by a pogre agenda, rejecting them is not stupidity but rational skepticism. They add that in economics, the left also ignores inconvenient data, such as the impact of minimum wages on employment or the inflationary effects of public spending.

What many observers overlook is that both sides have stopped sharing a common set of basic facts. When one side no longer recognizes the legitimacy of the other's sources, debate becomes impossible. And in that dead end, the loser is whoever demands consistency with a reality that is no longer shared.