The repugicans live in an alternate universe

Cognitive Dissonance and the repugican Denial of Reality
by Allen Clifton

There's not a day that goes by where I don't walk away from reading some of the comments I get on Forward Progressives  or Right Off A Cliff and wonder to myself, "What must reality be like on whatever planet repugicans seem to live on?"

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These are the people who claim to be the cabal for "fiscal responsibility," yet haven't had a president from their own cabal balance the budget since President Eisenhower who served over a half-century ago.  Hell, Ronald Reagan (the man many of them champion as the epitome of wingnuttery) drastically grew our deficits and our national debt during his time in the White House.

Tell me again how that's being "fiscally responsible?"  I still don't get that.

These are also the people who call themselves "christians" while condemning the poor, vilifying the needy then supporting policies that perpetuate greed and selfishness.  All things which are direct contradictions to the values for which christians are supposed to stand for.  Yet millions of these people still continue to believe themselves to be "christians" basically because they oppose abortion, same-sex marriage and attend cult rites frequently.  Two things which jesus never even spoke about, and the cult being something he did warn people to be wary of as often times people speak of god to benefit their own selfish ambitions.

And don't even get me started on their stance as the cabal for "small government."  They love government.  They constantly support big government when it benefits something they support or oppose.  They only really oppose government when it goes against their ideological beliefs.

Now we have this government shutdown, where somewhere in the delusional minds of repugicans they believe they've been given some kind of mandate that allows them to shut down our government in a pointless attempt to stop "Obamacare."

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But none of this really matters to repugicans, and there's an easy answer as to why.  See, most of them suffer from what's known as cognitive dissonance.  To put it simply, cognitive dissonance is the brain's inability to handle two conflicting realities, so it creates an alternate one which often defies actual reality.

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What they want to be real doesn't correspond to what is real, therefore instead of facing the stark reality that their whole political ideology is wrong, they've simply concocted some alternate form of reality where facts, science and history don't matter.