He has a bad case of
Cognitive dissonance,(those two words fit lib's and some conservatives to a tee) it occurs when individuals are confronted by facts which are in conflict with their existing belief systems. This causes people to become quite uncomfortable. They have a choice to make when confronted with an inconvenient fact. (a) They can rationalize away the fact using any number of rationales and escape methods or (b) they can accept the fact as truth and readjust their beliefs.
Cognitive dissonance gets worse for people when a whole body of inconvenient truths and facts are presented or when the truth gets so overwhelming that they can no longer deny the possibility that they might have been wrong all along.
It has been my experience that Liberals choose (a) almost exclusively. They will alter the truth to conform to their beliefs. People rarely let the truth alter their beliefs. This is the heart and soul of cognitive dissonance.
The first step in arresting the harmful effects of cognitive dissonance is realizing that you have it. I had it...
There are millions upon millions of people who adamantly believe fraudulent opinions and who will refuse to bend- even when confronted with overwhelming evidence to the contrary. This is a dominant feature of politics. This is also a dominant feature of the human condition. Some of the most intelligent people I know- cannot grasp the simple truth that they might be wrong. The tsunami has not come for them. Perhaps it never will.
I don't try to make the best evidence bend to my beliefs anymore- I change my beliefs to accommodate the best evidence.
Does the sun always rise in the east? Not exactly- but I'm not sure it matters. It sure as hell ain't worth arguing about
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