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Remember this article like a tactical manual.

2 posted on 05/17/2026 11:19:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Good ammo, mountain climber. I worry that this proves there will be violent uprising that will have to be countered; an incapacity for reason due to the rejection of facts as a counter argument can only result as such, as the only method for instilling policy based on this psychological mindset is violence. Hence the constant attacks on the 2nd


8 posted on 05/17/2026 11:30:56 AM PDT by cport (How can political capital be spent on a bunch of ingrates)
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I was only a few minutes into it, and found a concise nugget of truth to put in my attempts to fathom the Leftist mindset:

"...They do not process truth because they cannot; they do not want it because it threatens the psychic and social scaffolding of their identity...."

9 posted on 05/17/2026 11:37:16 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est)
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"...One line of research on brain lesions notes that damage to the dorsolateral PFC can shift ideological expression..."

"Senator Fetterman enters the room."

11 posted on 05/17/2026 11:44:29 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est)
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Damn. This is filled with what many erroneously dismiss as "psychobabble" but with each passing sentence I read, I am more impressed. You are correct. This article is like a tactical manual.

Of course, in speaking directly to a Leftist, it would be, for them "Scotty-raise the shields!"

12 posted on 05/17/2026 11:49:46 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est)
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Best article on this subject I have ever read. Ever. Hands down.

I have long believed that cognitive dissonance is the pathology behind the outlandish behavior we see in Leftists. Can anyone-ANYONE-say they have ever seen similar behavior in any Conservative, anywhere, ever? No, they can't.

But that isn't true with the Left.

They all seem absolutely insane-all of them.

Detached from reality. Impervious to logic. We ALL have degrees of cognitive dissonance in us, the same way we all inherently have the potential of evil in ourselves.

For Conservatives, that cognitive dissonance we occasionally have is like a small ball bearing or a marble rolling around in our skulls. When that rolling object strikes a mooring line of reality, it can occasionally sever it, even in Conservatives. It's just a fact of life. The great thing is, we have enough mooring lines that tie us to that pier of reality, that when one gets severed by some flavor of cognitive dissonance, it is only one, and the other lines hold us fast to that reality-based pier.

For Leftists, that cognitive dissonance they have rolling around in their heads is the size of a bowling ball. When that rolls around in their skulls, like a chain shot of cannon fired into a ship of sail, it takes out not just one hawser, it takes out all of them at once, and not just the hawsers that secure that ship to the pier, it takes out almost all of them, along with the masts, the sails, the decking, and everything else reality based on that pier, and they are set adrift in a reality that only exists in their minds.

It is why when you see them as humans that are literally barking at ICE agents, the only word that seems to fit them besides batshit crazy, is "Untethered".

Untethered to reality.

Wow. What a great article.

19 posted on 05/17/2026 12:14:42 PM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est)
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So it's like "A Clockwork Orange"'s Ludovico
Technique, just subtler and without the eye clamps.

LudovicoTechniqueAlex

Though I've met some Leftists so far gone
it seemed 'Nature Over Nurture' in their case.

26 posted on 05/17/2026 1:30:21 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (and that's how they permanently ruined Ludwig Van for me.)
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“The left will not be reasoned into sanity; it must be outlived, outbuilt, and outvoted by those who refuse to surrender the prefrontal birthright of humanity: the capacity to face reality without flinching.”

Indeed..


30 posted on 05/17/2026 2:55:44 PM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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