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Cognitive Dissonance and the Followers of Donald Trump
Townhall.com ^ | February 15, 2016 | Michael Brown

Posted on 02/15/2016 10:09:20 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: mc5cents
Sorry but I don't vote for people like that, ever!

LOL!
You've been doing exactly that for the last 24 years!

That's the very definition of cognitive dissonance!

161 posted on 02/15/2016 5:59:31 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: Yaelle

“I’ve given intelligent reasons why I am supporting Trump and they are completely ignored by people here. It’s frustrating.”

That’s how you can tell which side of a dispute is correct, even if you know absolutely nothing about the issue.

The side that is arguing the way the left argues is wrong.

Every time.


162 posted on 02/15/2016 6:00:03 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Kaslin
Poor Teddy Bares! The Trump Truck is rolling on down the road!


163 posted on 02/15/2016 6:01:45 PM PST by WVKayaker (What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate -D.Trump)
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To: Yaelle

“Choosing the guy with the most conservative establishment creds is a GAME they let us play to fool us.”

Mark Twain said that if voting were important, they wouldn’t let us do it.


164 posted on 02/15/2016 6:02:23 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: odawg

“Instead, they ransack the last 20 years, cherry picking and pulling things out of context to prove their point.”

Just as leftists do.


165 posted on 02/15/2016 6:07:40 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: RasterMaster

“When you’re appealing to the BERNIE SANDERS voter, you’re off the reservation!”

The caption of your graphic says that Sanders is appealing to Trump voters, not the other way around.


166 posted on 02/15/2016 6:15:03 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: dsc

They’re playing to the same demographic.

http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/01/vermonts-split-loyalties-trump-or-bernie/


167 posted on 02/15/2016 6:18:37 PM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: RasterMaster

“They’re playing to the same demographic.”

So, brain-dead leftard young people are the same demographic as the rest of the young people?

Sounds to me like some of them are smart enough to support Trump, and the others are drooling-idiot socialists. How is that the same demographic in any meaningful way?


168 posted on 02/15/2016 6:27:08 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: dsc

From the article:

“I think he’s smart, and he has the best chance of winning support and maybe flipping the state,” Daniel Nadeau, 22, of St. Albans, Vt., said of Mr. Trump. “Bernie is my No. 1 choice, and Trump is No. 2. They’re not that different.”


169 posted on 02/15/2016 6:31:15 PM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: dsc
Thomas Sowell could set him straight in ten minutes.

I admire Dr. Sowell enormously, but from his ivory tower it's a different view.

Had he spent a few years in the corrupt center of DC, he would be now bald and have a somewhat different view...

170 posted on 02/15/2016 7:02:25 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: TXSearcher
Hillary is busy writing her next speech about how even "Republican Trump" realizes that all Republicans are too "evil" to be allowed in the White House again.

The stopped clock speaks...

And I agree with her.

Not all, but every elected GOPE politician serving more than two terms...

Professional politicians lust for power, just like the Evil *itch.

That's what GOPe elected criminals do...

171 posted on 02/15/2016 7:07:19 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: dsc
My prediction is that he will make a couple of good faith deals with the demonrats, they will stab him in the back, as is their wont, and he will Freddy Kruger them.

And that is a bad thing why?
Better than be accused of mugging innocents.

172 posted on 02/15/2016 7:20:03 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: publius911

“Had he spent a few years in the corrupt center of DC, he would be now bald and have a somewhat different view...”

Perhaps, but my point was that the information could be communicated.


173 posted on 02/15/2016 7:24:42 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: publius911

“And that is a bad thing why?”

I’m sorry that I gave the impression that I thought it was a bad thing.

I think it would be a very, very good thing, and the more demonrat heads that roll, the better.


174 posted on 02/15/2016 7:26:23 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Charles H. (The_r0nin)
What has Trump done to "stop King Obama, the communists black Muslim terrorists"? Not what..."

Trump has served with the GOPe elected criminals already?

Who knew?

< /sarc >

175 posted on 02/15/2016 7:27:05 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: 5thGenTexan
Are you willing to bet our country Trump will not move back to his liberal roots, where he has spent most of his adult life?
If he does, did you "win" or did we all "lose"?

Silly hypotheticals; puerile.

Another budding Nostrodamus?

176 posted on 02/15/2016 7:33:18 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: 5thGenTexan
Sounds like ObamaMath, LOL.

I bet you also think that unemployment is only 5.2%; LOL!

177 posted on 02/15/2016 7:36:36 PM PST by publius911 (IMPEACH HIM NOW evil, stupid, insane ignorant or just clueless, doesn't matter!)
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To: publius911

No math involved on my part. Just poll data.

But nice to see Teump supporters still insult in every comment.


178 posted on 02/15/2016 8:47:45 PM PST by 5thGenTexan
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To: dfwgator
Godwin's law is the ultimate in political correctness.

Consider that the inability to extrapolate growing totalitarianism to its logical conclusion, whether that be a dictatorship like Adolf Hitler's, Josef Stalin's, or Pol Pot's or something more technologically advanced any of them could only have dreamed of is in itself a form of censorship.

The only losers there are the people who will be exterminated under such a regime or worse yet, live under it.

We have witnessed increasing Governmental controls over every aspect of life, from health care to raising our children to the vehicles we drive to the fuel we are allowed to use to the toilets we flush and the light bulbs in their sockets.

Our private property is ours only so long as we use it in a State-approved fashion, and our purchases are increasingly monitored and controlled.

Our communications are monitored, our vehicles can be tracked, our cell phones and e-mail follow every aspect of our lives, right down to our web browsing history, and it is all a matter of record.

All that remains for the jaws of the trap to close is an edict, a new law, a proclamation, and the military that our 'law enforcement' has become can engage an unaware populace targeted by segment, area, or individual and associates, with the most advanced tactics and weaponry in the world.

When the dust settles, the parrot media will show your demise as an example of the elimination of a "domestic terrorist".

It is sad indeed when normalcy bias stands squarely in the way of a rational discussion of possible outcomes.

Nothing I have stated above is incorrect.

We are that close.

Recognize we may only be one election away from totalitarianism, so choose very carefully. Purge yourself of emotional connection to ANY candidate, go with facts, not opinion, and examine what they have said and done--warts and all--and then decide who you think would be best to stand in the breach and Defend this Republic and its Constitution.

179 posted on 02/16/2016 2:29:49 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: centurion316

Someone’s marketing people have studied well the advantage of having a catchy slogan and letting people fill in a blank slate, seeing what they want to see. After all, it worked for the Kenyan. Another flavor of Hope and Change.


180 posted on 02/16/2016 2:35:49 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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