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A Pandemic of Cognitive Dissonance
American Thinker ^ | 5 Apr, 2023 | John Green

Posted on 04/06/2023 6:12:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The Left has built an ideological belief system based on alternate realities and conflicting assertions. It is a house of cards which is inherently flawed and will eventually fall.

We’re facing yet another pandemic. It’s not a viral outbreak. This crisis is a mental disorder outbreak -- rather like mass hysteria. The outbreak has spread worldwide, but fortunately only affects those of a leftward political persuasion.

The condition is cognitive dissonance. According to Medical News Today:

Cognitive dissonance is the discomfort a person feels when their behavior does not align with their values or beliefs. It can also occur when a person holds two contradictory beliefs at the same time. (Emphasis mine)

Condemning America for its past use of slavery while helping companies profit from the current use of slavery -- and calling oneself woke for doing it -- is an example of cognitive dissonance.

Unfortunately, the only known treatment is talk therapy. However, the leftist preference for screaming and cancellation over debate and reason renders them resistant to treatment. In addition, the availability of treatment is limited, as many therapists are also sufferers.

The infection rate among leftists is nearly 100 percent.

Many members of the “gay” community live in a constant state of grievance. They complain about intolerance towards themselves, while we indulge their month-long orgy of “pride” every year. Is there such a thing as mad-gay? Because that’s what the majority seem to be.

While we’re on the subject of the gay community, why do they call themselves queer -- while asserting that their lifestyle is perfectly normal? Does “queer” have some definition in another language that means something other than abnormal?

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: cognitivedissonance; grievance; leftism; leftists
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1 posted on 04/06/2023 6:12:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Why do leftists keep going on about the evils of slavery, but support communism which is slavery to the state?


2 posted on 04/06/2023 6:12:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

The Left is a cult. A cult can convince it’s members of anything.........anything.


3 posted on 04/06/2023 6:19:04 AM PDT by Right Brother
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Amazon is a monolithic example of cognitive dissonance.

My cow can’t fart so you have food, but Amazon can be expected to provide you same day delivery of your precious flying ball toy made in China that was recommended for you on TikTok and is made using slave labor.


4 posted on 04/06/2023 6:25:15 AM PDT by IamConservative (I was nervous like the third chimp in line for the Ark after the rain started.)
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To: MtnClimber

Anyone who knows about The French Revolution knows where this is all headed.


5 posted on 04/06/2023 6:26:38 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MtnClimber

“ This crisis is a mental disorder outbreak — rather like mass hysteria”

Libtardism gone bonkers

They’re out of their minds and need psychiatric emergency care


6 posted on 04/06/2023 6:31:33 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: MtnClimber

Mental illness or malice…I see some of both on the left. For the masses who espouse the latest leftist diatribes, go apoplectic at the mention of Trump’s name, are still wearing face masks, have those ridiculous coexist bumper stickers on their cars or Black Lives Matter signs in their yard or slavishly vote Democrats into office despite that party pushing them into a failed socialist state I would say it’s mental illness. For leaders like Pelosi, Schumer and the cabal pulling senile Joe’s puppet strings it is malice. These people hate America, liberty and freedom. They want to destroy our Republic and replace it with a single party fascist state. I would also have to say for a few on the left it is pure evil. Those who have no qualms about abortion even at birth, who would sexually mutilate children based a on a twisted ideology and seek to make Americans into serfs of an all powerful state are doing so out of pure evil.


7 posted on 04/06/2023 6:31:47 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: Right Brother

The most recent example being the treatment of ‘unvaccinated’ people, including proposals to ship us off to concentration camps, deny us emergency medical care, and ruin us financially. Nice.


8 posted on 04/06/2023 6:34:59 AM PDT by drwoof
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To: IamConservative

Bfl


9 posted on 04/06/2023 6:36:04 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: MtnClimber

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― George Orwell, 1984


10 posted on 04/06/2023 6:36:25 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: The Great RJ

“They want to destroy our Republic and replace it with a single party fascist state.”

You’ve got the malice part right-
But don’t cover it with them wanting some new peaceful Utopia for all.

They want us dead. They want unbridled power to do whatever they want to do. To whomever they choose. All the while, stealing every nickel they can glom from this Republic.
It isn’t an altruistic effort on their part.

They are evil, malicious, bastards.
And many of their followers are the same.

Act accordingly-


11 posted on 04/06/2023 6:44:39 AM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: MtnClimber

It’s totally intentional. There are 2+ generations who have been indoctrinated, not educated. Those who are indoctrinated feel entitled, empowered, and have an inflated sense of self worth. However, they have little to no ability to think critically.

A stupid public, craving validation. That’s what it took to bring this country down.


12 posted on 04/06/2023 6:51:40 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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Maybe leftest are just bored. Most don’t have a useful job and they don’t create anything, many have no job at all except bitching.


13 posted on 04/06/2023 7:08:11 AM PDT by MrKatykelly (Obama was the proof of concept puppet.)
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The Left is stuck in the philosophy of Post Modernism, yet very few of them know what Post Modernism is. If you ask them, they might get as far as saying that Post Modernism is about something that Bill Clinto said during impeachment. They are referring to Clinton’s’ remark that it all depends on what the definition of “is” is.

It has always puzzled me how these young college students can be so brainwashed and never know what it is all about.


14 posted on 04/06/2023 7:08:55 AM PDT by Eva
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To: MtnClimber
When one examines the assertions of those with leftward political leanings, there can only be two explanations -- mental illness, or malice.

Mental illness/delusion/stupidity among the leftist followers, absolute self-serving malice on the part of leftist "leaders".

15 posted on 04/06/2023 7:20:29 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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We’re about to witness a mass extinction event where gen Z disappears. Neanderthals were an evolutionary deadend and gen Z is next. Nature takes care of itself by eradicating what doesn’t fit into its evolutionary scheme.


16 posted on 04/06/2023 7:28:31 AM PDT by sergeantdave (AI is the next iteration of a copy and paste machine.)
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To: MtnClimber

Good article thank you...


17 posted on 04/06/2023 7:38:56 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: MtnClimber; All
"A Pandemic of Cognitive Dissonance"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

Patriots need to ignore politically correct labels like cognitive dissonance, LGBT, etc.

The problem is that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification Congress has been wrongly ignoring its duty to guarantee each state a republican form of government, a major consequence being that renegade state and local governments are getting away with indoctrinating children with the wrong ideas in public and private schools.

"Article IV, Section 4: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government [emphasis added], and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."

Patriots, the bottom line is this imo. What is your threshold of “pain” for peacefully stopping unconstitutionally big state and federal governments controlled by bully, constitutionally undefined political parties, from oppressing the people under their boots?

The inevitable remedy for ongoing, post-17A ratification, corrupt political party treason (imo)...

All MAGA patriots need to wake up their RINO federal and state lawmakers by making the following clear to them.

If they don’t publicly support either a resolution, or a Constitutional Convention, to effectively "secede" ALL the states from the unconstitutionally big federal government by amending the Constitution to repeal the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators) Amendments (16&17A), doing so before the primary elections in 2024, that YOU will primary them.

If the proposed amendment was limited strictly to repealing 16&17A, relatively little or ideally no discussion would be needed before ratification of the amendment imo.

With 16&17A out of the way, my hope is that Trump 47 becomes the FIRST president of a truly constitutionally limited power federal government.

In fact, unconstitutional Social Security, based on FDR era stolen state powers imo, is projected to run out of money by 2033 as a consequence of alleged Democratic and RINO criminal mismanagement of SS funds, unconstitutional, unaccountable federal spending a major concern.

So the sooner that 16&17A are repealed, putting a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, the sooner that the states will find new revenues to establish their own SS programs, depending on what state social spending programs the legal majority citizen voters of a given state want.

Finally, hasn't it been about 100 days since so-called "MAGA Republicans" took control of the House? Have they done anything to brag about so far?

Primarying RINOs in 2022 was just for practice. Trump will hopefully do another round of primarying for 2024 elections.

18 posted on 04/06/2023 8:25:21 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: The Great RJ
 
 
These people hate America, liberty and freedom. They want to destroy our Republic and replace it with a single party fascist state.
 
They love America just fine - it's the land of criminal opportunity, with an open system that can be gamed and ransacked, with corrupt if not clueless politicians and a gullible populace that has shown time and again to be willing accomplices. There's a payday involved in everything they do or they're not interested. They just "hate" any opposition to their objectives. I move in those kind of circles, have dealt with those maggots for years. The defeat of our way of life is deeper than most can imagine.
 
 

19 posted on 04/06/2023 8:36:41 AM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: MtnClimber

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20 posted on 04/06/2023 11:16:01 AM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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