Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking. Login or Take a Tour!
mk · 3670 days ago · link · · parent · post: Are Politicians Too Dumb to Understand the Lyrics to ‘Born in the USA’?
Cognitive dissonance is a mainstay of politics, conservative politics in particular. Exercising control of a populous means that you will do damage. To believe that you are doing a greater good by exercising harm requires the kind of buy-in that allows you to rock out to the chorus while ignoring the verse. This is not about being smart or being dumb. It is about empathy.