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Originally Posted by willravel
Outside of these people, you have the dissonant people.
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It's impressive how much danger there is in that, even long-term.
If the desire to ignore reality due to the need to support your choice is so great, it is easy to see that even when the original choice is long gone (either in a couple of weeks or in 4 years), the need to ignore reality will continue in a cycle.
If, today, Person X does not agree with my candidate, in the future I will not agree with Person X.
I would consider that the opposite of logic - much like the current need to support a candidate due to a fantasy.
This is clearly a major problem that goes far beyond the costs of this war or this election. It is, in effect, a replacement of democracy with a dictatorship of ego:
I must not be wrong, therefore I must base my decisions on never having been wrong.
How can such a cycle be broken?