Just saw this post and I have a little anecdote which I think is very relevant regarding liberals supposedly thinking they are right about everything and close minded. I'm from the UK and spent my honeymoon in the US back in 2009. We travelled from Chicago down to Mississippi, so met a really broad range of people. It was right around the time Obama was trying to push the new Health Service legislation through so was a topic on a lot of peoples minds.
Now I wasn't especially in to US politics at the time but one thing really struck me. With 100% consistency, every Republican we met told us how bad the Health Service in the UK was like(that's right, the country we were from!). Whereas every Democrat asked us what it was like. And when I say every, I really do mean every - there must have been around twenty conversations split pretty evenly across Democrats and Republicans and it was the same every time without exception! Not people expressing their views on it's suitabilty to the US, but actually telling us how bad the NHS was in a country they had never visited and we had lived our whole lives in!
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