Cognition Through Reality Filters

SEE HERE Thomas Sowell nails it again. Recognize that it is a human characteristic to exercise selective cognition. You have to work at being open and fair. Liberals talk about it all the time but see the world through a highly filtered and selective view of reality. That isn't to say that conservatives don't have filters, just different ones. To see the world as it is, you have to be prepared to look at the data — All the data. The other options is to be trapped in your own suppositions.