Posted on 09/23/2017 1:18:53 PM PDT by ItsOnlyDaryl
The more people there are who ignore facts that contradict their beliefs, the likelier a dictatorship will emerge within a given country. Here is how aristocracies, throughout the Ages, have controlled the masses, by taking advantage of this widespread tendency people have, to ignore contrary facts:
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One of which is often that they are smarter than everyone else; this is called the Dunning Kruger effect.
Yes the liberals do this all the time.
Hmmm, I don’t remember all this concern under the tyrant Obama. The man ruled by the use of a pen, constantly.
I’m betting this writer believed a lot of stuff there were facts to disprove back then.
And they still do evidently.
Funny how each side thinks its the OTHER side that does this.
The author is a Sanders kook. His premise is that there are conservatives, liberals, and right-thinking people who agree with him. And the “liberals” of whom he speaks are, supposedly, Adam Smith liberals.The reality is, of course, that the meaning of “liberal” was essentially inverted between the Adam Smith era and the present day. According to Safire's New Political Dictionary, this occurred in the 1920s.
Anyone who tries to argue liberalism without understanding that the word’s meaning was hijacked a century ago is, to be charitable, naturally going to be confused.
It’s human nature. As evident here as anywhere else.
He seems to be on a one man crusade for "progressivism" and thinks that word is more substantial a thing than it really is.
This from the guy that knows the longest a Marxist system has survived in world history is 75 years, compared to longer survival times for all the competing economic systems.
Must be fun when he looks in the mirror.
This premise can also extend into the world of “comparative religions”.
“To say what ‘so’ is SO, and to say what is ‘not’ is NOT!”
re: Hammerstein play, ‘The King and I”.
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How about this for cognitive dissonance?
I wonder if this would have been a better title for the article?
"People Ignore Facts That Contradict Their Politically Correct School Indoctrination"
I always like to say it as “Stronger to Get Her”
Communist Projection on Parade.
"I can't breathe! I can't breathe! I can't breathe!"
The reality is, of course, that the meaning of “liberal” was essentially inverted between the Adam Smith era and the present day. According to Safire’s New Political Dictionary, this occurred in the 1920s. >>> that fact made it hard for me to understand the article. i wasn’t sure he knew that. so i kinda figured he didn’t.
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