Lotus Eaters has a video ( LINK ) discussing "What is Wrong with the Left?", and they led with a study I hadn't seen before
Archive link: https://archive.is/yygF3
From the article:
“I was very surprised that the level of liberal bias against conservatives was nearly three times greater than was conservative bias toward liberals,” Ridge said. “This is directly the opposite of what ideological asymmetry would predict. I was also surprised that given this result, liberal participants claimed that conservatives were much more prejudiced than liberals, whereas conservatives did not attribute any more prejudice to liberals than to conservatives. This is contrary to much popular opinion about liberals and conservatives in popular media and in the empirical literature.”
I am not personally surprised by this, as I am aware of previous studies that show the left really doesn't know all that much about conservatives in general, and do a really bad job at generalizing conservative ideas. I think this stems from the way the left is able to totally insulate themselves in an information bubble due to the overall heavy leftward bias in all cultural institutions.
My crazy aunt gave my family the "gay people are just like you" speech out of nowhere one time simply because churchgoer, conservative. Another relative (centrist liberal) had to tell her "they know that already." (I don't actually "know" this, but we all understand.)
In her case we've tried to talk to her several times, but she's seemingly impervious to reason. She'll ignore factual details and reiterate some hippy boomer pablum about corporations or the Pentagon Papers or Harvey Milk. I think she has some kind of existential need to justify her dissolute lifestyle that makes her phobic of serious reflection, and this is probably the case for many left wingers.
Upvote for "pablum." Great word.