If anyone gets a chance, don't borrow but BUY this book, and read it front to back, or at least read the part about "mechanical" vs. "adaptive" thinkers, and the chapters about "crap detecting", logical errors and logical dodges.
It is not a book about politics. It is a book about logical thinking. It will help immensely if you want to be able to understand what pundits and others are REALLY saying, and what ideas they're trying to force down your throat.
Of course, if you can't read, then I guess you're stuck with Rush Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, and others who have taken over the audio/visual media, and will probably be programmed by them anyway.
Amazon.com: Brain Power: Learn to Improve Your Thinking Skills: Karl Albrecht: Books
I would like to type and post the entire section from this book called "The Mechanical Thinker and the Adaptive Thinker" but I'm sure someone would remove it due to copyright infringement.
Mechanical Thinkers are the idiot-type conservatives who can't think properly, not necessarily business conservatives. Adpative thinkers are your liberals, but not the stupid bum liberals who abuse any "handouts" that are supposed to help them (drug addicts, third-generation welfare families, etc.) NEITHER of these terms apply to right OR left-wing FREAKS, because freaks can't think at all.
I'll give you a little bit from the book. A mechanical thinker gets an opinion, and then will not change it even if new information or new situations warrant doing so. He always has to "take a stand" on everything. He thinks he's being "weak" if he changes his mind.
He doesn't ask a lot of questions, except loaded ones during debates with others.
He thinks his religion is the only "true" one, even thought there is no proof of who or what created everything. He also thinks that people from other countries are inferior by default.
Religious leaders love him, political demagogues love him, and advertising copywriters love him, because he is controllable. He has the notion that he "thinks for himself", but he's actually more easily manipulated than adaptive thinkers, because he automatically responds to messages designed to trigger his limited number of thought processes.
Adaptive thinkers, on the other hand, have a "neutrality" midset towards a situation, which allows them to think objectively about it.
An adaptive thinker will continually explore his world for new information and ideas. He likes new ideas, unlike the mechanical thinker who retreats to the "tried and true".
He'll freely question the status quo.
He is less likely to distort or filter his perceptions to match preconceived notions, because he generally has fewer hard and fast opinions to start with.
Please buy this book for more information.
'Brain Power' by Karl Albrecht 
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