Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon

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mezzrow said:
If half the public doesn’t see Trump as a dangerous monster, perhaps he isn’t. But that would conflict with a person’s self-image as being smart and well-informed in the first place. When you violate a person’s self-image, it triggers cognitive dissonance to explain-away the discrepancy.

So how do you explain-away Trump’s election if you think you are smart and you think you are well-informed and you think Trump is OBVIOUSLY a monster?

You solve for that incongruity by hallucinating – literally – that Trump supporters KNOW Trump is a monster and they PREFER the monster. In this hallucination, the KKK is not a nutty fringe group but rather a symbol of how all Trump supporters must feel. (They don’t. Not even close.)

In a rational world it would be obvious that Trump supporters include lots of brilliant and well-informed people. That fact – as obvious as it would seem – is invisible to the folks who can’t even imagine a world in which their powers of perception could be so wrong. To reconcile their world, they have to imagine all Trump supporters as defective in some moral or cognitive way, or both.

As I often tell you, we all live in our own movies inside our heads. Humans did not evolve with the capability to understand their reality because it was not important to survival. Any illusion that keeps us alive long enough to procreate is good enough.

That’s why the protesters live in a movie in which they are fighting against a monster called Trump and you live in a movie where you got the president you wanted for the changes you prefer. Same planet, different realities.

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/153080448451/the-cognitive-dissonance-cluster-bomb
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Why does the writer assume that if you aren't protesting that you got the president you wanted?
 
mezzrow said:
If half the public doesn’t see Trump as a dangerous monster, perhaps he isn’t. But that would conflict with a person’s self-image as being smart and well-informed in the first place. When you violate a person’s self-image, it triggers cognitive dissonance to explain-away the discrepancy.

So how do you explain-away Trump’s election if you think you are smart and you think you are well-informed and you think Trump is OBVIOUSLY a monster?

You solve for that incongruity by hallucinating – literally – that Trump supporters KNOW Trump is a monster and they PREFER the monster. In this hallucination, the KKK is not a nutty fringe group but rather a symbol of how all Trump supporters must feel. (They don’t. Not even close.)

In a rational world it would be obvious that Trump supporters include lots of brilliant and well-informed people. That fact – as obvious as it would seem – is invisible to the folks who can’t even imagine a world in which their powers of perception could be so wrong. To reconcile their world, they have to imagine all Trump supporters as defective in some moral or cognitive way, or both.

As I often tell you, we all live in our own movies inside our heads. Humans did not evolve with the capability to understand their reality because it was not important to survival. Any illusion that keeps us alive long enough to procreate is good enough.

That’s why the protesters live in a movie in which they are fighting against a monster called Trump and you live in a movie where you got the president you wanted for the changes you prefer. Same planet, different realities.

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/153080448451/the-cognitive-dissonance-cluster-bomb
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Scott Adams posts interesting blog posts and ideas. He's seems like a good guy.
 
I suspect the anti-Trump rancour is largely sourced of democrat supporters knowing (intuitively or explicitly), that their own party was the architect of it's own presidential demise. This 'knowledge' inflicts upon them an unsettling cognitive dissonance which, is as often the case, manifests itself in a 'blame the messenger' (Trump in this situation) scenario rather than confront the message itself. In selecting Hillary Clinton as candidate, the Democrat party stuffed up monumentally....hoist with their own petard.
 
deipnosophist said:
I suspect the anti-Trump rancour is largely sourced of democrat supporters knowing (intuitively or explicitly), that their own party was the architect of it's own presidential demise. This 'knowledge' inflicts upon them an unsettling cognitive dissonance which, is as often the case, manifests itself in a 'blame the messenger' (Trump in this situation) scenario rather than confront the message itself. In selecting Hillary Clinton as candidate, the Democrat party stuffed up monumentally....hoist with their own petard.
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you mean a 'gulit trip' ;)
 
ilikecheese said:
Why does the writer assume that if you aren't protesting that you got the president you wanted?
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These are my thoughts - not the author's... (of course)

Not ALL of the people that voted for Clinton thought that Trump was a monster. Many, but not ALL. For policy reasons, many would prefer Clinton.
I would guess not even all the people in the streets think Trump is a monster. Most probably, but not ALL.
I didn't get the president I wanted ether. I wanted Scott Walker. How's that look now? I'm not protesting in the streets.

I don't see the writer assuming your point above, but you'd have to ask him.
 
mezzrow said:
These are my thoughts - not the author's... (of course)

Not ALL of the people that voted for Clinton thought that Trump was a monster. Many, but not ALL. For policy reasons, many would prefer Clinton.
I would guess not even all the people in the streets think Trump is a monster. Most probably, but not ALL.
I didn't get the president I wanted ether. I wanted Scott Walker. How's that look now? I'm not protesting in the streets.

I don't see the writer assuming your point above, but you'd have to ask him.
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That's what he said in the second to last sentence. "That’s why the protesters live in a movie in which they are fighting against a monster called Trump and you live in a movie where you got the president you wanted for the changes you prefer.'
 
deipnosophist said:
I suspect the anti-Trump rancour is largely sourced of democrat supporters knowing (intuitively or explicitly), that their own party was the architect of it's own presidential demise. This 'knowledge' inflicts upon them an unsettling cognitive dissonance which, is as often the case, manifests itself in a 'blame the messenger' (Trump in this situation) scenario rather than confront the message itself. In selecting Hillary Clinton as candidate, the Democrat party stuffed up monumentally....hoist with their own petard.
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Ad hominem
 
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