• Infynis@midwest.social
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    6 months ago

    All those Republicans are gonna have to square their “law and order” worldview with voting for a CONVICTED FELON.

    Why? Cognitive dissonance is their bread and butter. They wouldn’t be Republicans if they couldn’t believe two totally mutually exclusive things at the same time

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      6 months ago

      Indeed, the idea that a party that has as its central tenets: more tax cuts for billionaires, more “free speech”, er cash, to buy off politicians, zero regulations and gigantic giveaways for corporations, is “for the little guy”.

      I suspect that so many of them are so crazy and/or so angry is that all that cognitive dissonance which is required to hold those two contradictory ideas in their head has to drive them to distraction.