1. Winning arguments that use rhetoric and challenge opponents' credibility rather than their argument
2. Making unverifiable claims that sound like common sense
3. Popularity is often synonymous with expertise
4. Personal experience is more credible than objective evidence
5. There is only one cause for every problem
6. Statistics can be skewed so statistics can not be trusted
7. Solutions can exist without tradeoffs
8. If you criticize something you are intelligent
9. Scapegoating an outgroup or external factors unifies your base
10. Newly discovered facts or updates can explain away broken promises.
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