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This post displays a near-textbook example of cognitive dissonance! - Absolutely fascinating -sm

Posted: Nov 20th, 2017 - 9:57 pm In Reply to: The tax plan - Sm

First some definitions.
Cognitive dissonance is what happens when someone's cherished belief is proven wrong. The person holding the cherished belief would then hallucinate why it really isn't wrong to believe that. There must be some other reason to hold the wrong belief.

https://www.simplypsychology.org/cognitive-dissonance.jpg

Let's analyze!

What is the cherished belief in the above sample post? There are probably many:
* Conservatives are evil.
* Conservatives would never give a tax break to the poor.
* Conservatives only give tax breaks to the wealthy.
* Conservatives are illogical.
* I'm a liberal and I favor giving back to the poor therefore my worldview is better than that of the conservative.

(Of course, I don't know what the writer is thinking so I'm having to make some assumptions based on the context. I'm not a mind reader.)

What is the ugly truth that doesn't fit the righteous liberal worldview?

"So let's give people with absolute horrible poverty $700 extra dollars a year..."

That, folks, is an admission that the Republican tax plan does indeed benefit the poor. Liberal reality shattered! Liberal leadership lies exposed.

As for the rest of the post:

"and expect them all to create life savings and suddenly we'll get a nation of nothing but billionaires and everyone will be happy, right? At the same time we'll kill all their tax deductions and cut their social services so they pay $1000 more in taxes and get $4000-$10000 less a year. But the'll start a small business with that $700. Then they'll get a $2 million loan from their dads that make $25,000 a year. #conservativelogic"

That is the hallucination. The poster is saying, "Even if you do give a tax break to the poor it won't help them." Of course, she can't bring herself to believe that Republicans could help the poor in any way so the hallucination is written as sarcastically as possible.

Congratulations to the conservatives here who said the new tax plan will help the non-wealthy. The opposing side has officially confirmed your viewpoint. Looks like you won the debate. Well, as much as you can win any debate on the Internet. :)

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