Cognitive dissonance at work...
I think it is worse than that, being a form of what George Orwell called doublethink, the ability of a Communist to know the truth while also believing the Party’s false account. Even after the fall of Communism, doublethink remained as an ingrained reflex of the Leftist mind, too useful to jettison.
Agreed! Cognitive dissonance is real and it is endlessly seen in leftists like this ‘wealthy?’, old woman. I call cognitive dissonance by a different word though and that word is ‘stupid’ and like Ron White says, ya can’t fix stupid.
JoMa