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Joe Cooper
Dec 28, 2015, 1:24:46 PM12/28/15
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The psychological processes which prevent people from facing facts when
the unthinkable has become obvious can be explained by the models of
social psychology called cognitive dissonance theory.
Cognitive dissonance is the mental stress and discomfort caused when
important beliefs, attitudes or values, called cognitions, are
inconsistent, conflicting or contradictory to each other. In the 1950s
the psychologist Leon Festinger theorized that the mind spontaneously,
continuously reduces cognitive dissonance to enable goal-directed
functioning in a paradoxical, inconsistent, deceptive world. Festinger's
discovery founded a rich tradition of research which has demonstrated how
the mind resolves contradictions. It provides a powerful way to
understand why people can't face what President Obama is doing to
America.
Research has demonstrated countless times that cognitions do not have to
be true to create dissonance, they just have to be believed. Barack Obama
was elected to reduce the dissonance between the beliefs 'America is the
land of the free', and the falsehoods 'America is still racist' and
'President Obama will go a long way to solving the problem of racism.'
Because 'America is racist” is false, its corollaries are equally false.
'We must elect a black Democrat -- not black Republican -- because
Republicans don't emphasize America is racist. Obama is fabulous, no need
to know much about him, or whether he can lead the nation. He will make
us feel better about ourselves'.
The antecedents of Barack Obama's hatred of America are now well
understood. Obama was groomed from the womb to abhor this white majority,
predominantly Christian free enterprise Republic. From his expatriate,
capitalism-hating mother, from his alcoholic Communist father and his
perv Communist mentor, detesting America was in his mother's milk and the
blood in his veins. But it was the murderous Bill Ayers who recognized in
Obama a destructive potential greater than a million bombs cooked up in
basements. Ayers concocted the poison cocktail called Barack Obama that
everybody wanted to drink, but nobody wanted to taste first.
America is Barack Obama's prey. He is tearing America apart and feeding
the pieces of her life to his foreign and domestic fellow travelers. He
is not transforming the nation but terminating it. Even the most
transformational administrations haven't enabled the murder of Americans
by declared enemies, weakened the national defense, mocked the concerns,
and dimmed the hopes of average Americans as this president has. Even the
highly transformational Franklin Roosevelt did not return Nazi generals
to the enemy during the war as Obama did in the Bergdahl swap. Roosevelt
did not entertain and enrich Nazi bigwigs as Obama has the Muslim
Brotherhood. Imagine Roosevelt facilitating German atom bomb research and
enriching the Axis powers as Obama has in the Iran deal. No president has
erased the nation's borders at land and sea as Obama in advertising
inducements for an invasion from around the world. No president in
American history has aided enemies, undermined the economy and derided
the American people as the current commander-in-chief.
The immensity of Obama's disloyalty is key to why people cannot face the
truth about him.
If the Obama election were going to reduce the dissonance he would have
started his administration thusly: “As I have said, we are one nation,
going forward together. Mine will be the first truly color-blind
administration in American history. Every appointment I make will be
based solely on qualifications and proven competence without reference to
race.” Of course, this is the opposite of what Obama did. He fine-combed
through America searching for scraps of racism. He strengthened the lie
that America is a racist nation as cover for his destruction. Amongst
innumerable examples: Attorney General Holder introduced the Obama
administration by implying the white majority are all racists, built a
DOJ whose foremost concern is racism, carried forward by Loretta Lynch,
who just said a street strewn with American corpses murdered by Jihadi
terrorists is a “wonderful” opportunity to fight racism.
America is racist, so illegals can enter unchecked. America is racist,
destroy her free markets, send billions to nonwhite people as “warmist”
reparations for her ill-gotten success. America is racist, empower and
enrich her enemies like Iran. Barack Obama and his ilk experience zero
cognitive dissonance regarding the contradictory beliefs 'America is
about freedom' and 'America is racist'. They never believed that America
or her Constitution are about freedom. They believe the incurably evil
and racist America must be eliminated for the good of the world.
Before the mass denial of Obama's hatred is explained by dissonance
theory, let's mention subdissonant Americans. Subdissonant Americans have
no discomfort whether America is about freedom or racism because they are
too intellectually limited, dumbed-down, or drugged out to care. If asked
“Why does the sun shine?” a six-year-old will answer, “That is what the
sun is 'post to do.” This is termed the moral explanation of concrete
thinking. Based on IQ distribution, approximately 15% of the population
do not think beyond the moral explanation, and do not recognize a
president who isn't doing what he is supposed to do. Other subdissonant
groups are those too ill educated or addicted to care about freedom or
racism.
Festinger's induced-compliance paradigm of dissonance theory explains why
black Americans may be the last group to face Obama's destructiveness --
because his policies have hurt them the most. In a famous experiment,
people were instructed to lie to others and say a boring task was
interesting. The induced-compliance paradigm found that people paid only
$1 to lie convinced themselves they were telling the truth more than
people paid $20 to tell the same lie! This counterintuitive effect has
been replicated many times. People who received minimal external
motivation for managing dissonance -- those paid the least -- produced
stronger internal justifications to deny their actual experience. The
underpaid believed their own lies better than those paid twenty times
more. The overpaid say, “I'm in it for the money, period.” This is why
many very wealthy people slug the colada in Obama's banana republic while
the poorest blacks continue to justify the president, even as they get
poorer.
Obama is destroying America overtly and covertly. By promoting policies
which are normalizing harmful drugs, undermining the natural family, and
generally promoting moral chaos he slyly increases the number of
subdissonant Americans, people too ill or distracted to care. He has
brainwashed or bought off virtually the entire government including the
Republican establishment. A noble people who years ago would have
resolved dissonance by believing in America's goodness and standing firm
against tyranny no longer do.
The social psychologist Elliot Aronson advanced cognitive dissonance
theory, further explaining why people can't face Obama's hatred and
destruction. Aronson's self-concept model theorized the central purpose
of dissonance reduction is to preserve positive self-image (I am a good
person) and self-justification (I was right all along). Because so many
Americans now have been convinced we are a racist nation, to maintain a
positive self-image people cannot face the truth about Obama.
The loss of opportunities and the diminishing of hopes which Obama's
policies have inflicted create a monumental need for self-justification
among his supporters. “The president shows us America is still racist. We
were right all along.” They have let go the truth that America is about
freedom. No one knows how many still stand upon that truth, how many
care, or if there are enough big lies left to elect Hillary
Source: http://bit.ly/1mLpKjs
--
Obama Nine Hours Before Paris Terror Attack: "We've Contained ISIS."
ISIS: "We've contained Obama."
"Never underestimate the willingness of white progressives to be offended
on behalf of people who aren’t and to impose their will on those who
didn’t ask for it." (Derek Hunter)
"We are a people who won’t be played for fools by a president in the grip
of dangerous denial about the identity of the enemy and its dramatic
successes. We are a people who remember an important lesson from World
War II: believe tyrants who tell us who they are and what they plan to
do. Above all, we are a people who refuse to be guilt-tripped into
national suicide"--Joy Overbeck
the unthinkable has become obvious can be explained by the models of
social psychology called cognitive dissonance theory.
Cognitive dissonance is the mental stress and discomfort caused when
important beliefs, attitudes or values, called cognitions, are
inconsistent, conflicting or contradictory to each other. In the 1950s
the psychologist Leon Festinger theorized that the mind spontaneously,
continuously reduces cognitive dissonance to enable goal-directed
functioning in a paradoxical, inconsistent, deceptive world. Festinger's
discovery founded a rich tradition of research which has demonstrated how
the mind resolves contradictions. It provides a powerful way to
understand why people can't face what President Obama is doing to
America.
Research has demonstrated countless times that cognitions do not have to
be true to create dissonance, they just have to be believed. Barack Obama
was elected to reduce the dissonance between the beliefs 'America is the
land of the free', and the falsehoods 'America is still racist' and
'President Obama will go a long way to solving the problem of racism.'
Because 'America is racist” is false, its corollaries are equally false.
'We must elect a black Democrat -- not black Republican -- because
Republicans don't emphasize America is racist. Obama is fabulous, no need
to know much about him, or whether he can lead the nation. He will make
us feel better about ourselves'.
The antecedents of Barack Obama's hatred of America are now well
understood. Obama was groomed from the womb to abhor this white majority,
predominantly Christian free enterprise Republic. From his expatriate,
capitalism-hating mother, from his alcoholic Communist father and his
perv Communist mentor, detesting America was in his mother's milk and the
blood in his veins. But it was the murderous Bill Ayers who recognized in
Obama a destructive potential greater than a million bombs cooked up in
basements. Ayers concocted the poison cocktail called Barack Obama that
everybody wanted to drink, but nobody wanted to taste first.
America is Barack Obama's prey. He is tearing America apart and feeding
the pieces of her life to his foreign and domestic fellow travelers. He
is not transforming the nation but terminating it. Even the most
transformational administrations haven't enabled the murder of Americans
by declared enemies, weakened the national defense, mocked the concerns,
and dimmed the hopes of average Americans as this president has. Even the
highly transformational Franklin Roosevelt did not return Nazi generals
to the enemy during the war as Obama did in the Bergdahl swap. Roosevelt
did not entertain and enrich Nazi bigwigs as Obama has the Muslim
Brotherhood. Imagine Roosevelt facilitating German atom bomb research and
enriching the Axis powers as Obama has in the Iran deal. No president has
erased the nation's borders at land and sea as Obama in advertising
inducements for an invasion from around the world. No president in
American history has aided enemies, undermined the economy and derided
the American people as the current commander-in-chief.
The immensity of Obama's disloyalty is key to why people cannot face the
truth about him.
If the Obama election were going to reduce the dissonance he would have
started his administration thusly: “As I have said, we are one nation,
going forward together. Mine will be the first truly color-blind
administration in American history. Every appointment I make will be
based solely on qualifications and proven competence without reference to
race.” Of course, this is the opposite of what Obama did. He fine-combed
through America searching for scraps of racism. He strengthened the lie
that America is a racist nation as cover for his destruction. Amongst
innumerable examples: Attorney General Holder introduced the Obama
administration by implying the white majority are all racists, built a
DOJ whose foremost concern is racism, carried forward by Loretta Lynch,
who just said a street strewn with American corpses murdered by Jihadi
terrorists is a “wonderful” opportunity to fight racism.
America is racist, so illegals can enter unchecked. America is racist,
destroy her free markets, send billions to nonwhite people as “warmist”
reparations for her ill-gotten success. America is racist, empower and
enrich her enemies like Iran. Barack Obama and his ilk experience zero
cognitive dissonance regarding the contradictory beliefs 'America is
about freedom' and 'America is racist'. They never believed that America
or her Constitution are about freedom. They believe the incurably evil
and racist America must be eliminated for the good of the world.
Before the mass denial of Obama's hatred is explained by dissonance
theory, let's mention subdissonant Americans. Subdissonant Americans have
no discomfort whether America is about freedom or racism because they are
too intellectually limited, dumbed-down, or drugged out to care. If asked
“Why does the sun shine?” a six-year-old will answer, “That is what the
sun is 'post to do.” This is termed the moral explanation of concrete
thinking. Based on IQ distribution, approximately 15% of the population
do not think beyond the moral explanation, and do not recognize a
president who isn't doing what he is supposed to do. Other subdissonant
groups are those too ill educated or addicted to care about freedom or
racism.
Festinger's induced-compliance paradigm of dissonance theory explains why
black Americans may be the last group to face Obama's destructiveness --
because his policies have hurt them the most. In a famous experiment,
people were instructed to lie to others and say a boring task was
interesting. The induced-compliance paradigm found that people paid only
$1 to lie convinced themselves they were telling the truth more than
people paid $20 to tell the same lie! This counterintuitive effect has
been replicated many times. People who received minimal external
motivation for managing dissonance -- those paid the least -- produced
stronger internal justifications to deny their actual experience. The
underpaid believed their own lies better than those paid twenty times
more. The overpaid say, “I'm in it for the money, period.” This is why
many very wealthy people slug the colada in Obama's banana republic while
the poorest blacks continue to justify the president, even as they get
poorer.
Obama is destroying America overtly and covertly. By promoting policies
which are normalizing harmful drugs, undermining the natural family, and
generally promoting moral chaos he slyly increases the number of
subdissonant Americans, people too ill or distracted to care. He has
brainwashed or bought off virtually the entire government including the
Republican establishment. A noble people who years ago would have
resolved dissonance by believing in America's goodness and standing firm
against tyranny no longer do.
The social psychologist Elliot Aronson advanced cognitive dissonance
theory, further explaining why people can't face Obama's hatred and
destruction. Aronson's self-concept model theorized the central purpose
of dissonance reduction is to preserve positive self-image (I am a good
person) and self-justification (I was right all along). Because so many
Americans now have been convinced we are a racist nation, to maintain a
positive self-image people cannot face the truth about Obama.
The loss of opportunities and the diminishing of hopes which Obama's
policies have inflicted create a monumental need for self-justification
among his supporters. “The president shows us America is still racist. We
were right all along.” They have let go the truth that America is about
freedom. No one knows how many still stand upon that truth, how many
care, or if there are enough big lies left to elect Hillary
Source: http://bit.ly/1mLpKjs
--
Obama Nine Hours Before Paris Terror Attack: "We've Contained ISIS."
ISIS: "We've contained Obama."
"Never underestimate the willingness of white progressives to be offended
on behalf of people who aren’t and to impose their will on those who
didn’t ask for it." (Derek Hunter)
"We are a people who won’t be played for fools by a president in the grip
of dangerous denial about the identity of the enemy and its dramatic
successes. We are a people who remember an important lesson from World
War II: believe tyrants who tell us who they are and what they plan to
do. Above all, we are a people who refuse to be guilt-tripped into
national suicide"--Joy Overbeck
Beam Me Up Scotty
Dec 28, 2015, 1:32:26 PM12/28/15
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On 12/28/2015 01:22 PM, Joe Cooper wrote:
> The psychological processes which prevent people from facing facts when
> the unthinkable has become obvious can be explained by the models of
> social psychology called cognitive dissonance theory.
>
> Cognitive dissonance is the mental stress and discomfort caused when
> important beliefs, attitudes or values, called cognitions, are
> inconsistent, conflicting or contradictory to each other. In the 1950s
> the psychologist Leon Festinger theorized that the mind spontaneously,
> continuously reduces cognitive dissonance to enable goal-directed
> functioning in a paradoxical, inconsistent, deceptive world. Festinger's
> discovery founded a rich tradition of research which has demonstrated how
> the mind resolves contradictions. It provides a powerful way to
> understand why people can't face what President Obama is doing to
> America.
And why Obama himself ignores reality....
> The psychological processes which prevent people from facing facts when
> the unthinkable has become obvious can be explained by the models of
> social psychology called cognitive dissonance theory.
>
> Cognitive dissonance is the mental stress and discomfort caused when
> important beliefs, attitudes or values, called cognitions, are
> inconsistent, conflicting or contradictory to each other. In the 1950s
> the psychologist Leon Festinger theorized that the mind spontaneously,
> continuously reduces cognitive dissonance to enable goal-directed
> functioning in a paradoxical, inconsistent, deceptive world. Festinger's
> discovery founded a rich tradition of research which has demonstrated how
> the mind resolves contradictions. It provides a powerful way to
> understand why people can't face what President Obama is doing to
> America.
>
> Source: http://bit.ly/1mLpKjs
>
*The ideology of Liberalism is a never ending stream of contradictions*
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