• eighthourlunch@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I wouldn’t hold your breath. The survivors of the Heaven’s Gate cult continued to believe after most everyone they knew offed themselves over a comet. Cognitive dissonance is a powerful thing.

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      1 year ago

      Combine that cognitive dissonance with the sunk cost fallacy, and what you end up with is a cocktail for the worst components of human evolutionary psychology at work. Breaking that degree of social programming stacked on top of pre-existing biological priming can be damn near impossible.

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        Combine that cognitive dissonance with the sunk cost fallacy

        They’ve spent years having to defend and rationalize why they vote for him. Admitting they were wrong will be impossible for a lot of them. So they dig in even deeper.

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      Not all of them, though. We just need enough of them to give up on Trump for him to lose his stranglehold on American politics.

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        I think the Republican Party needs to completely implode and reform without the crazies in order for American democracy to stand a chance.