Tribalism making people stupid - part 1 of infinity

Things like this make me simultaneously happy and outraged.  Outraged in that it's incredibly frustrating that so many people allow themselves to be willfully stupid in the name of loyalty to which ever "-ism" they feel loyalty toward.  However, I accept that this is a reality with far too many people in our society right now, so I'm happy when such obvious examples of it are available, as they are easy to mock and impossible to defend.

The more often we see these examples of "impossible to defend" bits of tribal stupidity, the more likely each of us is to sincerely examine our own moments of tribalistic idiocy and, perhaps, start to work toward purging that sort of thing from our own minds.

Our example for today is question Q2, and keep in mind that this is a poll of only GOP primary likely voters in Louisiana.

 http://www.scribd.com/doc/161910086/PPP-Louisiana-poll-August-2013

As I was searching for a graphic to include in this post (it just looks better and more appealing with a graphic, or at least that's the conventional wisdom), I came across this chart showing the amount by which self-identified party members shifted positions on the NSA depending on which party's president was in office.  Pretty funny/sad stuff.  So that graphic will be another pretty good example of how party loyalty supersedes facts and logic in far too many people's decisions/opinions.

I will post other examples of this sort of thing when I come across them, as they really drive the point home.  Tribal loyalty (be it political party affiliation, religion, philsophical identity, sports team favoritism, etc., etc.) allows far too many people to reach conclusions that only a person with zero knowledge or logic skills would otherwise reach.  We don't want to be "that" person, nor do we want any of the people we know to be "that" person, so the more exposure this affliction gets, the better.  Only through self-awareness (and the deliberate effort to overcome tribalistic stupidity that hopefully results) can each of us in our society get a little less stupid.

If you see any examples of this sort of thing, I'd love to post it (regardless of which end of the whichever spectrum its coming from), so please send them my way!