Re:Why Are US Presidential Elections So Close?
by notoothpaste on Friday November 04, 2016 @06:49PM
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I wonder what it's like to experience this level of cognitive dissonance.
Re:Why Are US Presidential Elections So Close?
by mcv on Saturday November 05, 2016 @05:48PM
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We may never know. But here's what I suspect: maybe they don't experience cognitive dissonance at all. Many Trump supporters, like Trump himself, don't seem at all interested in any kind of rational consistency; it's all fear and emotion and gut feelings and hatred, and they latch on to any argument that superficially seems to justify their hatred, completely oblivious to the fact that their argument would hurt their own candidate even more.
It's only a theory of course; I can't look inside their heads. But the lack of consistency is clear.
And of those two, only one is currently running for president.
It's interesting to see Trump supporters go out of their way of pointing out that Bill Clinton is nearly as terrible as Donald Trump because they can't find that level of dirt on Hillary Clinton, but it ignores two important facts:
* Donald Trump is every bit as bad as Bill Clinton on these issues (if not worse)
* Bill Clinton is not running for president. Attacking him with the exact same dirt that Donald Trump has, is (or should be, in a sane society) be counterproductive. Attacking Bill for these things while continuing to support Donald is the height of hypocrisy.