Well I thought it was clever . . .

[ET Awful]

I thought it was one of the more clever responses I'd written in a while :)

On another forum, someone had commented on how conservatives won't accept facts that disprove what they heard from Limbaugh, Coulter, et al. . . so I responded with:

"Which brings us back to the primary failing of the right. . . that being cognitive dissonance. They have a complete inability to grapple with a concept that contradicts that which they know (or think they know) to be "true." (for those who can't comprehend the concept, the quotation marks around "true" indicate that that which they believe to be true usually isn't).

What this means is that if confronted with FACT that contradicts what they have fully absorbed through their spun source (i.e. Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter, Newsmax, etc.), their brain goes into a state of CDO (Cognitive Dissonance Overload).

Basically, what happens is their brain (limited in scope as it is) fills up. Once this has happened, no new facts can be absorbed without eliminating the already accepted pseudofacts which they gobbled up previously. This elimination, however, is sadly rare, as it requires effort (something they are unwilling to exert unless it involves monetary gain or slandering the left).

Thus, the ability of the extreme right to accept truth when presented to them is greatly diminished."

[Atlant]

1. Another way of phrasing the same concept is that...

Another way of phrasing the same concept is that people
will much more readily believe a pretty lie than an ugly truth.

Walter Mondale, 1984:

"Let's tell the truth. Mr. Reagan will raise your taxes,
and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did.

[liberalhistorian]

2. That couldn't be more true, but you have to admit

that there are those on the left who are very accomplished at CDO as well! Not nearly as much as the repukes, but they do exist.

[ET Awful]

3. Agreed . . .

But it's so much more fun to point it out in the repukes :).

On the left, the disorder is tolerable (kind of like say . . Tourette's in the general population, it's a horrible disorder, but it isn't prevalent enough to be of major concern to the vast majority of people). On the right though, it's kind of like having a city the size of Manhattan populated with nothing but CDO sufferers (no insult to Manhattan, it was just used for a size reference) :).

[RobertSeattle]

4. Here's another graphic summary

Mr. Andersen, May I be excused? My brain is full.

[Atlant]

6. Damn I miss Larson's cartoons...

Door at "School for the Gifted": "Pull"

Kid, pushing with all of his might.

Atlant

[rock]

5. Yep. They're hypocrites