t came from. The moment they heard that it came from their own team or the other team they took a side and then they argued why it made sense. But that argument why it made sense was an afterthought because they didn't make a decision based on it making sense. They simply heard which team it was and then they joined the team.

And by the way many of these studies they're looking for a statistically significant effect, right? It's like a lot of studies would be like well yes we move people by five percent so we think this is pretty valid. This isn't a five percent effect. This is closer to a hundred percent. You can move almost a hundred percent of Republicans and Democrats to a view that's the opposite of their own view simply by telling them that their team agrees with it. That's it. Almost a hundred percent. Think about that. Do you believe that you have free will? It's been disproven. Your free will in terms of political opinion has been scientifically conclusively disproved. You can repeat the experiment in a hundred different ways and a hundred different varieties and do you know what happens? It's always the same. People don't use any kind of common sense or facts to make political decisions. Now I think it might be different for the professionals because they've got a lot going on but for the voters we're simply watching the news and then forming opinions. None of it has to do with reason. None of it has to do with the facts. People simply take sides and then argue why it made sense for them to take that side anyway.

That explains all the word news that you see. The reason that each team is making news out of the way somebody worded something. This is because they can and because they actually talked themselves into believing everything the other side says is crazy and stupid.

All right. Free will does not exist. That is correct. It is an illusion. How do we get our team in the first place? That's a good question. So there's also research that shows that there's a genetic component to whether you're conservative or liberal and that has been pretty well established. So there's a big part that you're just born with. Born with some kind of impulse one way or the other. Beyond that you're probably born into a family that shares those same impulses because DNA. So you're probably born into it with a natural inclination to lean one way. It's reinforced by the fact that your family leans that way. They have similar DNA. So it's a combination of genetic and social forces. Now there are people who change sides but I'll bet they don't change sides often unless at the same time there's something else changing in their life. In other words they may be less close to the people who they used to agree with and they may have met a few people that are influential on the other side. And so it's because the people change them not because the argument changed them. It might be because they get older. They have discovered something. But for the most part people just join the team and then argue why it made sense to be there.

Now I've told you for a couple years that one of the tricks I used to remain independent and thought as much as a human can is that I don't vote and I don't identify with either party. And part of the way I do that which is hard, it's hard to not identify with the left or the right, is I spend most of my time saying good things about Trump's skills as a persuader. But I also identify myself as l