"A lot of Americans who lean conservative will react to Bush's bad economy, his humiliating gaffes, his blatant contradictions, and his obvious failures, by supporting him even more. To turn against him now is to reveal a truth too painful to be considered-that they were stupid and easily manipulated before. Like cult members who are too emotionally invested to see reality, every insult to their rationality must be turned into a triumph, every injury to their pocketbook and well-being must be transformed into another righteous example of how 'freedom isn't free.'"
Brad Radcliffe gives us a lesson on congnitive dissonance over at Democratic Underground.com.
This is a phenomena that I recognized fairly early on, and as a result, gave up on trying to convince the lost. It would be sort of like trying to reason with the zombies in Night of the Living Dead. There is no debate possible.
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