They dehumanize whoever does not fit their view: They put other people's views inferior to theirs and dehumanize people whose views do not fit theirs.
It fit their view of the evil empire and fell in the same category as the story of the K.G.B. plotting the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II -- too good a yarn to check or dispute.
They will lie, cheat, and distort the truth to fit their view of the world, and they don't care who gets hurt or how many people die as a result of their actions.
This government-backed website presents 30 pithy statements ("All [drug-selling] 'coffee-shops' in the Netherlands should be closed down"; "European supervision of banks should be implemented"), and matches voters to the party that best fits their views.
Of the queen and royal family he says he suspects "they preferred political leaders" who "fully subscribed to their general outlook — or the 'authentic' Labour people, the sort they used to read about, who spoke with an accent and who fitted their view of how such people should be".
In the chart below you can see how people of different political leanings adapted the meme to fit their own views, and likely the views of people they're friends with.
As it turns out, people tend to click on jobs that fit their self-view, and that view can be reinforced in the direction of a stereotype by simply presenting it.
But officials who disagree say the top civilian policy makers are intent on politicizing intelligence to fit their hawkish views on Iraq.
Focusing specifically on science as reported in the media, it concludes that liberals and conservatives alike are capable of subconsciously rejecting findings that don't fit their preconceived views.
