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Democrats in the Cesspits of Despair

  

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Via:  xxjefferson51  •  7 years ago  •  12 comments

Democrats in the Cesspits of Despair
I have an answer for the Instapundit's favorite question: "Why is the Democratic Party such a cesspit of hypocrisy?" in two words: "disconfirmatory reality,” meaning the failure of reality to conform to their beliefs. This leads to all sorts of mischief and worse.

Last week, revered left wing thinker Noam Chomsky said that President Trump and the Republican Party represent a worse threat to humanity than ISIS; NBC news reader Lester Holt interrupted the President of the United States nine times in three minutes; some art professor announced that Republicans in Congress should be lined up and shot; and exactly none of the mainstream media players, from the New York Times to CBS and the Huffington Post, all of which had spent weeks enthusiastically berating Sarah Palin for suggesting the Republicans target a few House districts for election purposes protested repeated calls for Trump's assassination or saw anything wrong with any of the rest of it.


This behavior stands in stark contrast to what Republicans do when they lose elections: no serious conservative, for example, advocated that Obama be shot; tea party gatherings never turned into riots; and even fringe right wing sites generally talk more about issues than personalities.

So why are Democrats such hypocrites? Remember, they're the party of liberal progressivism: the party that inveighs endlessly against racism but embraces eugenics, spawned the KKK, and rewards people like Al Sharpton; the party that accuses its enemies of Nazism but embraces the Moslem Brotherhood and accepts both funding and direction from the only self confessed and unrepentant Nazi in American politics; the party that sees working Americans as deplorable embarrassments to their own enlightened community for their imagined illiteracy, homophobia and misogyny but reflexively defends Islam's right to enslave a billion women and stone deviants in the public square; and the party that fervently believes all forms of socialism morally better than the Christian ethos built into the American Constitution despite socialism's unbroken record of devolution to mass murder, social stagnation, and the effective enslavement of more than 99% of the people by less than 1%.

When Leon Festinger and his associates undertook the work leading to their widely misunderstood and maligned theory of cognitive dissonance, their ultimate goal was to understand how forty million decent Germans and tens of millions in the rest of Europe could so enthusiastically support Nazi methods -- and it's their research on how cult members react to the unequivocal disproof of some central belief that's important today -- because the increasing calls among Democrats for violence shows that same process at work here as in Germany of the 1930s.

In brief, what happens when events disprove a cult's major belief is that some adherents drop out; a majority first reshape their vision of reality to accommodate both their belief and an edited version of reality and then either gradually fade out of the cult or double down on their efforts to find confirmatory opinion by compromising others; and, a few set out to force others to act as if the belief stands unchallenged.

Among the last group, the nature and duration of the disproof process matters: the more abrupt and final the disproof, the more violent the reaction -- leading, in the extreme, to Jonestown events in which mothers murder their own children rather than face reality. Where that disproof is gradual and cumulative, however, the extreme group both grows as some majority members find social support by edging into the extremist camp, and loses its inhibitions against the organizational use of dishonesty, crime, and violence at roughly the rate at which the belief loses market share in the society they either belong or aspire to -- a classic slippery slope political and media players are particularly susceptible to because the pre-existing professional community amplifies their ability to provide their own social support while shutting out contrary voices.

The key elements that have to be in place for the true believers to slide toward dishonesty and violence are personal commitment to the belief, undeniable disproof, and enough rationality for the person to know that the belief has been disproven.

That two of these are in place with the Trump victory deniers is obvious: most of the journalists and others now attacking Trump in particular and Republicans in general have overwhelming and long term commitments to the progressive cause. This despite the fact that every major attempt to act on those beliefs, whether by Uncle Joe, Chairman Mao, the Kim Dynasty in North Korea, or that great hero and champion of the poor, Hugo Chavez, has turned into a murderous regime corrupting everyone and everything it touched.

Whether most of these people are rational enough to comprehend the truth that they can't acknowledge is a much more difficult question, in part of course because they can't be rational on the subject. But the fact that they generally don't apply their beliefs to themselves suggests that most have at least some grasp of their falsity. So far, for example, the number of dedicated leftists in politics and the media who have voluntarily gone to Cuba, Canada, or a V.A. hospital for superior health care remains, like the number voluntarily paying higher total taxes or offering lands and beaches they own for windfarm development, as close to zero as it is possible to get.

Thus the behavioral explanation for the fact that conservatives will generally accept electoral defeat gracefully whereas Democrats eagerly embrace hypocrisy, corruption, dishonesty and even violence to continue the fight by any means necessary is simply this: reality supports conservative belief, but pushes leftists down the slippery slope to the insanity of Trump derangement syndrome. Reality forces them to continually choose between recognizing the emptiness and historical absurdity of their core beliefs or holding themselves hostage to those beliefs by escalating their commitment, no matter what foul means may be required to make reality conform to their fantasy.



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Steve Ott
Professor Quiet
link   Steve Ott    7 years ago

About right wing hypocrisy, from the right:

12 QUESTIONS: A RIGHT-WING HYPOCRISY TEST

 

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
Senior Guide
link   seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Steve Ott   7 years ago

Why not create your own freakin seed about it instead of derailing mine with your LW moonbattery.  

 
 
 
Steve Ott
Professor Quiet
link   Steve Ott  replied to  XXJefferson51   7 years ago

 

 

You really want to know why I always happen to comment on your seeds? 

You have the most interesting headlines that pique my interest. I don't look, nor care, who seeded the thing. I simply go down the list of newest discussions and look for the headline I find most interesting at the time.

I am attempting to derail no one. I have no interest in that sort of thing as it generates nothing but animosity. I comment on both left and right seeds that appear to be so one sided in its view that I have no choice but to show that both sides cry about the same things; they simply do it at different times. 

If, at some time, someone were to seed an article about Republicans being in the cesspits of despair, I would comment on that article also, showing how Democrats had been in the cesspits of despair. 

I'm not about being a Democrat or Republican, I'm about being a human being and having the freedom to live my life as I choose without some authority telling me I'm doing it wrong. or I'm not allowed to grow wildflowers so tall, or grow vegetables in my front yard.

I commented on your article about Civil Discourse, and how it required the willingness to listen and perhaps change. I also explained how I had gone from where I was to where I am. I'm not afraid to change to mind, but you never give me any reason to change. The only thing I ever get from any of your seeds are replies (when someone does reply) that I am just way effing wrong. That really doesn't give me much to work with. Do you want Civil Discourse on your seeds or do you just want affirmation?

So let's get back to the article. So the Democrats are in despair. I pity them not. Nor do I believe that Republicans are any more rational. I have had my share of Republicans throw nothing but f-bombs at me as a "rational" reply.

no serious conservative, for example, advocated that Obama be shot

For the sake of Civil Discourse, lets say this is true (we may come back and look at this as being false).

Are there any serious liberals who are calling for something similar for Trump, or is the author merely painting with broad brushstrokes in an attempt to paint ALL liberals as being irrational and cultish?

You tell me.

  

 
 
 
PJ
Masters Quiet
link   PJ  replied to  Steve Ott   7 years ago

OMG - you're a hippie.  I heard that Dean used to be a hippie too but I think he must have gotten his hair cut or maybe he was bit on the ass by a republican bug.  In any case just to be on the safe side I would recommend that you NOT cut your hair and be careful where you plant your ass.  

Kidding aside, I agree that both sides seed articles mostly for affirmation.  I personally don't really seed or write anymore.  I'm actually just looking for both sides to agree or concede when their side does something ridiculous but we've reached a point where we no longer can discuss topics.  We simply defend the party we belong to or we relate to most no matter whether they deserve defending or not.  It's rather depressing.

 
 
 
Steve Ott
Professor Quiet
link   Steve Ott  replied to  PJ   7 years ago

LMFAO!!!!

I wanted to be one, but living in Odessa, TX at the time, I found it rather difficult. But it didn't stop me from dropping acid. I tried on several personas later and got divorced when I decided I'd had enough of that. Now I've just been me for the last 30 years. 

I've thought about seeding some articles, but I really don't have the time to oversee that kind of thing right now.

I really wish people would learn to prove their point rather than shout everyone else down, that is how despotism begins.

 
 
 
Kavika
Professor Principal
link   Kavika   replied to  Steve Ott   7 years ago

Opposing opinions and truth are kryptonite to the right wingers.

They love an echo chamber where they don't have to think.

 

 
 
 
sixpick
Professor Quiet
link   sixpick  replied to  Steve Ott   7 years ago

About right wing hypocrisy, from the right:

I'd be extremely careful when using World Net Daily if I were you Steve.  It's an extreme right wing site that can't be trusted.  Even the people on the right here don't use it.  I can't imagine how an article like that appeared on that site.  I wouldn't trust it if for no other reason than bugs.

World Net Daily (WND)

 

right02 RIGHT BIAS

These media sources are moderately to strongly biased toward conservative causes through story selection and/or political affiliation. They may utilize strong loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes), publish misleading reports and omit reporting of information that may damage conservative causes. Some sources in this category may be untrustworthy.

I avoid it like the plague.  get several emails from them daily, I believe because I went to them on time a long time ago.  I have them in my spamblocker.  That protects me, but it doesn't stop them from sending the emails.

 
 
 
Steve Ott
Professor Quiet
link   Steve Ott  replied to  sixpick   7 years ago

Thaks. I'll take that under advisement.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
Senior Guide
link   seeder  XXJefferson51    7 years ago

So some here are using Criticism from the far right of the right as a reason to derail my seed? 

 
 
 
Dowser
Sophomore Quiet
link   Dowser    7 years ago

Again, I don't know about every other democrat in this country, but I'm not living in a cesspit of despair.  My son is getting ready to graduate from high school, and frankly, I feel very optimistic about the world.  The world could be in a lost worse places than in his kind, capable hands.  thumbs up

 
 

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