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Cognitive Dissonance in the 2016 Election

Posted on 11/10/2016 12:43:19 PM PST by DianaNichols

We need to blast through the fog machine of misdirection being pumped out by the bought and paid for main stream media (msm) and clarify our situation. Donald Trump resonates with so many people because his main goal is to preserve America and our Constitution, without which we could not have become this Great Nation which stands for Freedom. Our Constitution is the embodiment of quite lofty ideals and is what protects the natural rights of individuals and led us, as a people, to mature beyond the vision of our forefathers to understand that 'all men are created equal' doesn't just mean white male land owners, but ALL human beings. The opposition and previous administrations have been chipping away at our liberty until it is a tattered remnant of what it was when the 'shot that was heard around the world' was fired. Donald Trump has promised to lead the people to take back our authority over the government and reinstate the natural order; that is a government that serves US, not one which WE serve. It is irrefutably established that our current administration and the several which preceded it disregarded the Constitution when it suited them in order to further agendas that have nothing to do with the interests of We The People. In order to serve those agendas this country, its people and its prosperity have been systematically disenfranchised and handled like livestock. The perpetrators of these crimes have used the smoke and mirrors of the media and entertainment industry to program the masses to salivate when they ring a bell just like Pavlov's dogs; and to turn our focus onto despising each other and demonizing the minutia of behaviors that don't fit the prescribed dogma of 'political correctness' in order to prevent us from noticing their enormous crimes against us. They have further programmed the blissfully oblivious masses to socially censor those who have managed to glimpse behind the obfuscation and point out the nefarious activities of the political class, by labeling them derisively as 'conspiracy theorists.' Even leading them to believe that anyone who actually believes empirical evidence of truth more readily than the ridiculous narrative they promote must be literally insane. Even when Conspiracies occur in great numbers and are revealed over and over again, the masses remain smug in their disdain of truth, evidence and logic which require the acknowledgement of the existence of layer upon layer of Conspiracy. One of those Conspiracies is the reason everyone is so distressed right now. A complex collusion of the DNC, the Media, the Administration, and most significantly the Clinton Campaign has been enacted with the purpose of orchestrating our reactions. The information is available to everyone. The layers of conspiracy are laid bare in a searchable data base of communications which occurred among the conspirators at the Wikileaks website. Donald Trump was specifically maneuvered into position as the Republican candidate because they believed that they could portray him more than any other potential Republican candidate in such a manner that he would never be elected. This is spelled out in plain language in several of the Wikileaks documents. Unfortunately the public have been conditioned to turn on the television in order to find out what their opinion is instead of actually forming an opinion based on their own observations. That false perception of reality has become the 'safe place' of the American People who have been subjected to decades of programming that is inconsistent with reality and hence brings on a state of Cognitive Dissonance, which when prolonged, becomes Psychotic Dissonance. Below is a link to a scholarly article that describes the effect: http://betshort.com/wilson.htm Donald Trump does not grab women by their genitals. He described to the person who was clandestinely recording him, with raunchy language, that his fame and wealth effected women in a manner that would make many women accept such behavior without protest. Bill Clinton actually grabs women by their genitals. I am certain that a very large percentage of the population has, at some time or another, said things that were in poor taste and/or poor judgement, but which do not reflect their actual character or behavior. And yet many are willing to vilify Donald Trump for it. We don't judge ourselves by our worst lapses. Nor have most people who are upset by Trump's election judged Hillary Clinton by her worst lapses. Ask yourself why that is? It is because the media has programmed that double standard into its listeners through the difference in attitude they model towards the two. Is a brief, raunchy moment comparable to violation of the espionage act? Because she did violate it. Anyone with any legal knowledge knows that the case as it has been revealed is a prima facia slam dunk, regardless of what actions the conspirator, James Comey, has determined to take or not to take. Does it compare to collecting 10 billion dollars intended to assist the people suffering in Haiti, but only using 10% for the Haitian people and pocketing the rest? Her actions have, at the very least, resulted in the deaths of the four Americans in Benghazi. That is just a very minuscule portion of the criminal behavior documented in the Wikileaks database. This disconnection from the actual reality of the two fact patterns has baffled many of us; and can only be explained by a widespread pandemic of severe, systemic cognitive dissonance throughout the population. Unfortunately, those suffering from that affliction are unlikely to have read this entire analysis. Their psyches will have caused them to cease exposing themselves to this information which so disrupts and threatens their programmed perception of reality. At this point it is likely only those who have broken through the effects of the condition are still reading. But perhaps one or two were stubborn enough to override the impetus compelling them to run. One can only hope.


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election; hillary; president; trump

1 posted on 11/10/2016 12:43:19 PM PST by DianaNichols
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To: DianaNichols

Yikes.


2 posted on 11/10/2016 12:45:30 PM PST by deadrock (I is someone else.)
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To: DianaNichols

Welcome to FR.


3 posted on 11/10/2016 12:45:38 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (SandyInPeoria just doesn't sound right... yet here I am.)
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To: DianaNichols
 
 
Paragraph breaks and some normal fonts would have been good an optimum viewing experience.
 
 

4 posted on 11/10/2016 12:46:20 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: DianaNichols

Paragraphs, please.

CC


5 posted on 11/10/2016 12:47:03 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: lapsus calami
 
 
Paragraph breaks and some normal fonts would have been good for an optimum viewing experience.
 
 

6 posted on 11/10/2016 12:47:50 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: DianaNichols

Welcome to FR.

You did hurt my eyes.

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7 posted on 11/10/2016 12:49:39 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: DianaNichols

Paragraphs are our friends


8 posted on 11/10/2016 1:00:45 PM PST by xzins
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To: deadrock

Well said!


9 posted on 11/10/2016 1:03:45 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: DianaNichols
Welcome to FR!

This will help you!

HTML Sandbox 2015

10 posted on 11/10/2016 1:08:53 PM PST by Prov1322 (Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
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To: DianaNichols

Welcome to the preeminent conservative message board. I like what you have to say. It is well-written and cogent. You’ll get the hang of the formatting stuff pretty soon, I suppose. Don’t be discouraged.


11 posted on 11/10/2016 1:14:47 PM PST by Blennos ( As)
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I should have added. Paragraphs are easy to implement in your post text. Simply put ‘< p >’ (without the spaces or the quotes) before the text to create a new paragraph.


12 posted on 11/10/2016 1:26:42 PM PST by Blennos ( As)
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To: DianaNichols

This is the end of the line for the globalists on both the left and the right. The election was for all the marbles because the world is waking up to the hidden assets and lines of oligarch control via the Internet. The news media were the last line of defense to the citadel. People are learning about the Bilderberg Society, the Mt. Pelerin Society, the Council of Foreign Nations, the true strategies of the IMF and the World Bank. We are now looking at the man behind the curtain thanks to the many investigative authors who have their works online and to the whislteblowers Assange, Snowden and Manning. The only strategy left to the fascist financier oligarchy is to blow the planet to ash via WWIII, which they are trying like hyenas to provoke in Syria and Ukraine.


13 posted on 11/10/2016 2:10:28 PM PST by Yollopoliuhqui (Smarter - Faster)
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To: DianaNichols

my eyes


14 posted on 11/10/2016 2:35:53 PM PST by I got the rope
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To: DianaNichols
Welcome to FreeRepublic, DianaNichols! I've been here since the Monica Lewinsky scandal in 1998. Let me format that text for you. I suspect it has good content, but it's nearly illegible as is:

We need to blast through the fog machine of misdirection being pumped out by the bought and paid for main stream media (msm) and clarify our situation. Donald Trump resonates with so many people because his main goal is to preserve America and our Constitution, without which we could not have become this Great Nation which stands for Freedom. Our Constitution is the embodiment of quite lofty ideals and is what protects the natural rights of individuals and led us, as a people, to mature beyond the vision of our forefathers to understand that 'all men are created equal' doesn't just mean white male land owners, but ALL human beings.

The opposition and previous administrations have been chipping away at our liberty until it is a tattered remnant of what it was when the 'shot that was heard around the world' was fired. Donald Trump has promised to lead the people to take back our authority over the government and reinstate the natural order; that is a government that serves US, not one which WE serve.

It is irrefutably established that our current administration and the several which preceded it disregarded the Constitution when it suited them in order to further agendas that have nothing to do with the interests of We The People. In order to serve those agendas this country, its people and its prosperity have been systematically disenfranchised and handled like livestock.

The perpetrators of these crimes have used the smoke and mirrors of the media and entertainment industry to program the masses to salivate when they ring a bell just like Pavlov's dogs; and to turn our focus onto despising each other and demonizing the minutia of behaviors that don't fit the prescribed dogma of 'political correctness' in order to prevent us from noticing their enormous crimes against us.

They have further programmed the blissfully oblivious masses to socially censor those who have managed to glimpse behind the obfuscation and point out the nefarious activities of the political class, by labeling them derisively as 'conspiracy theorists.' Even leading them to believe that anyone who actually believes empirical evidence of truth more readily than the ridiculous narrative they promote must be literally insane. Even when Conspiracies occur in great numbers and are revealed over and over again, the masses remain smug in their disdain of truth, evidence and logic which require the acknowledgement of the existence of layer upon layer of Conspiracy.

One of those Conspiracies is the reason everyone is so distressed right now. A complex collusion of the DNC, the Media, the Administration, and most significantly the Clinton Campaign has been enacted with the purpose of orchestrating our reactions. The information is available to everyone. The layers of conspiracy are laid bare in a searchable data base of communications which occurred among the conspirators at the Wikileaks website. Donald Trump was specifically maneuvered into position as the Republican candidate because they believed that they could portray him more than any other potential Republican candidate in such a manner that he would never be elected. This is spelled out in plain language in several of the Wikileaks documents.

Unfortunately the public have been conditioned to turn on the television in order to find out what their opinion is instead of actually forming an opinion based on their own observations. That false perception of reality has become the 'safe place' of the American People who have been subjected to decades of programming that is inconsistent with reality and hence brings on a state of Cognitive Dissonance, which when prolonged, becomes Psychotic Dissonance. Below is a link to a scholarly article that describes the effect: http://betshort.com/wilson.htm

Donald Trump does not grab women by their genitals. He described to the person who was clandestinely recording him, with raunchy language, that his fame and wealth effected women in a manner that would make many women accept such behavior without protest. Bill Clinton actually grabs women by their genitals.

I am certain that a very large percentage of the population has, at some time or another, said things that were in poor taste and/or poor judgement, but which do not reflect their actual character or behavior. And yet many are willing to vilify Donald Trump for it. We don't judge ourselves by our worst lapses. Nor have most people who are upset by Trump's election judged Hillary Clinton by her worst lapses.

Ask yourself why that is? It is because the media has programmed that double standard into its listeners through the difference in attitude they model towards the two. Is a brief, raunchy moment comparable to violation of the espionage act? Because she did violate it. Anyone with any legal knowledge knows that the case as it has been revealed is a prima facia slam dunk, regardless of what actions the conspirator, James Comey, has determined to take or not to take.

Does it compare to collecting 10 billion dollars intended to assist the people suffering in Haiti, but only using 10% for the Haitian people and pocketing the rest? Her actions have, at the very least, resulted in the deaths of the four Americans in Benghazi. That is just a very minuscule portion of the criminal behavior documented in the Wikileaks database.

This disconnection from the actual reality of the two fact patterns has baffled many of us; and can only be explained by a widespread pandemic of severe, systemic cognitive dissonance throughout the population.

Unfortunately, those suffering from that affliction are unlikely to have read this entire analysis. Their psyches will have caused them to cease exposing themselves to this information which so disrupts and threatens their programmed perception of reality.

At this point it is likely only those who have broken through the effects of the condition are still reading. But perhaps one or two were stubborn enough to override the impetus compelling them to run. One can only hope.

Even with the formatting, your text is hard to read because of the long sentences. That's similar to how I wrote when I was younger. I had big thoughts and expressed them in big sentences. Now that I'm older, I'm more interested in making sure people understand me.

I agree with much of what you say, but I think people are less under control than you state. A great many ignore and despise the MSM and many get their information through multiple online sources. Still, 47% voted for Hillary, so I'd say you're right to that extent.

15 posted on 11/11/2016 8:02:52 AM PST by Forgiven_Sinner (Seek you first the kingdom of God, and all things will be given to you.)
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