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To: rlmorel

“It is pretty astonishing. Right here on Free Republic we see people who fully side with the idiocy coming out of the Biden regime.”

Some of which fully that support Trump. It makes no sense. It does, however, make me very curious to find out the “why” of it.


64 posted on 11/12/2023 8:56:51 AM PST by Danie_2023
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To: Danie_2023

I’m not sure.

In my opinion, it is one of four things:

A DISPARITY NOT FACED, THOUGHT OUT, OR IS INNATELY RECOGNIZED AND IGNORED
These are the people who know, deep down, that they are wrong. But they won’t allow it to surface and affect their stance. It is an obvious disparity that in normal people would, I think, cause a great deal of disruptive and destructive cognitive dissonance. (That is why the Left is so insane, because there is a terrible degree of cognitive dissonance in a multitude of their ideological beliefs. It bounces around in their heads destroying their gray matter, should any actually exist.)

A DISPARITY NOT CONCEIVED OF
Someone who simply is not aware of the issue enough to even realize the disparity, and there isn’t even a hint of cognitive dissonance in them. This happens a lot too. 50% of the population is in the lower half of the IQ distribution.

IDEOLOGICAL BLINDNESS
Many of us are guilty of this in some form or degree, so there is that. These people are not the ignorant “A DISPARITY NOT CONCEIVED OF” types. They are well versed in the issues, but when given a Manichaean choice, decide to cut on that line on once side or the other.

PROVOCATUER OR TROLL
We do have plenty of them. They don’t need to be right or wrong on a given issue, they just have an end in mind, and words on a subject are simply a means to that end. They don’t care if there is inconsistency because it doesn’t suit their needs or achieve their goals.


79 posted on 11/12/2023 5:02:31 PM PST by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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