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| A Lesson in Cognitive Dissonance |
| 2016-11-27 |
| h/t Instapundit Imagine you are one of the anti-Trump folks who believe we just elected a racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-semitic, science-denying dictator. Let’s say that’s the movie playing in your mind. That’s some scary stuff. ...As Trump continues to demonstrate that he was never the incompetent monster his critics believed him to be, the critics will face an identity crisis. They either have to accept that they understand almost nothing about how the world works ‐ because they got everything wrong about Trump ‐ or they need to double-down on their current hallucination. Most of his critics will double-down. That’s how normal brains work. And that brings us to our current situation. As Trump continues to defy all predictions from his critics, the critics need to maintain their self-images as the smart ones who saw this new Hitler coming. And that means you will see hallucinations like you have never seen. It will be epic. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #4 Have you ever had someone tell you that Socialism is fluffy bunnies, rainbows, and dancing unicorns? Any Real Life counter example is waved off as being something other than True Socialism(c). |
| Posted by: magpie 2016-11-27 20:07 |
| #3 I read this on Insty earlier. The underlying assumption, mistaken IMHO, is that these people will ever recognize that Trump is defying their predictions. Their predictions are gospel and nothing he could possibly do, other than surrender totally to the socialist ideal, would ever be recognized as being anything other than proof of his r,s,h,a-s,s-d dictatorial evil. You can, IIUC, be subject to congnitive dissonance if you are capable of recognizing reality outside of your hallucinations. They can't. There "reality" is impervious to anything external to their mental constructs. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2016-11-27 17:57 |
| #2 see, now? You're expecting a brain.... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-11-27 17:19 |
| #1 (I hope) its kinda like when a head is moving in one direction, stops suddenly so that the brain inside sloshes forward, then the head rebounds in the reverse direction from the impact and strikes another surface causing the brain to slosh in the other direction. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-11-27 16:37 |