Saturday, October 19, 2013

Understanding the GOP

Written by Allen Clifton

 See, most of them [Republicans} suffer from what's known as cognitive dissonance. To put it simply, cognitive dissonance is the brain's inability to handle two conflicting realities, so it creates an alternate one which often defies actual reality. 

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What they want to be real doesn't correspond to what is real, therefore instead of facing the stark reality that their whole political ideology is wrong, they've simply concocted some alternate form of reality where facts, science and history don't matter.

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