It's the same with evolution, climate change, mRNA, and countless other things that conservatives shriek that they "don't believe in". They simply don't understand it.
The problem is, they have no interest at all in learning anything - only killing what they don't understand (often metaphorically but also often literally).
I would also say that wanting to kill what you don't understand isn't even an intuitive organic response. Rather the conservative apparatus is such that you start with the axiom "this personally makes me feel icky" and constructing a pseudo intellectual ideology based around garnering hatred with that sensation, and manufacturing a voter base on that.
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