30 Dec 2021 11:17 pm
Or when the banking system collapses even though you thought the housing policies would eradicate poverty in our time. And that these policies would actually be GREAT for the economy and then it clearly proved otherwise, they will go find ANY piece of obscure information to rationalize why it happened otherwise. Invariably it will be the other guy... the enemy who did something to overcome the benefits. Or when one of your guys does some obvious shady things your brain will immediately search through its memory to find a past incident where someone else did something shady to divert from the perceived conflict. As though this changes the obvious truth your mind knew they were corrupt before it switched the channel on you. You brain just switches its thought stream.LibDave » 31 Dec 2021, 12:07 am » wrote: ↑ For instance if you believe socialism is viable and all the spending is a good thing and doesn't result in inflation, when inflation does set in and even correlate as the data clearly shows the socialist will find ANY REASON to choose any bit of data and twist it to align with the confirmed perception. Such as when the readers of Trump's speech thought it was Obama's. Even though it obviously conflicted with much of what they held true, the rationalized it away in a manner that allowed them to think it actually confirmed their opinion of Obama and their best interests.
They'll even claim printing money decreases inflation. And I've even heard them buy that load of crap when Biden and Kamala and that press secretary made the statement. Incredible. Yet inflation staring them in the face and they deny there is any correlation. There brain just will not allow them to destroy the perception. There entire psyche has already invested so much effort... 10 years of effort developing the tool it uses to make sense of the world.