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Originally Posted by OpieCunningham
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?
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How does one undo dissonence? This is
Mass Dissonence. It is simple to undo dissonance with one or two people, but we are talking about a good percentage of the entire country. The only way for us to undo it is for Bush to alienate this group, which is virtually impossible. I'm all for electro-shock therepy, but that's probalby out of the question. Ther is not short term fix for this. Bush losing is the only way to fix this in reality.