“Cognitive dissonance is holding mutually exclusive thoughts at the same time”...”If anyone has a non-political example, I’d be grateful to read it.
Schizophrenia?
I gave some serious thought to your suggestion that cognitive dissonance and schizophrenia are related or the same. I’ve dealt with two schizophrenics. A schizophrenic by himself can function. But combine him with societal interactions and his craziness is easily spotted. It might be that the liberal doctor I know who can simultaneously support Hammas and their cruelty and admit Israel has a right to exist may be a schizophrenic on a spectrum like an autistic man. The result for me is I give them both a wide berth.