Politicos embrace falsehoods even when they know they are false
I know many of us are just stunned by how Boehner, and company are so adamant in their lies.. lies they know they are telling..how they can keep talking over people even when presented with facts.. It is because it has never been about facts.
It is about power. It is not about democracy..in fact democracy gets in their way.. there is only one solution.. vote them out.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07/11/how_facts_backfire/
" If people are furnished with the facts, they will be clearer thinkers and better citizens. If they are ignorant, facts will enlighten them. If they are mistaken, facts will set them straight.
In the end, truth will out. Won’t it?
Maybe not. Recently, a few political scientists have begun to discover a human tendency deeply discouraging to anyone with faith in the power of information. It’s this: Facts don’t necessarily have the power to change our minds. In fact, quite the opposite. In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs. Facts, they found, were not curing misinformation. Like an underpowered antibiotic, facts could actually make misinformation even stronger."
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