Reply #39: Therein lies the problem with perception. [View All]

[Spider Jerusalem]

Perception creates reality. But perception is often flawed. Your perception is fine, for you, but to many of those who don't share it there was nothing revolutionary in Dean's campaign, merely evolutionary (intelligent adaptation to and effective harnessing of relatively new communications technology as campaigning tool, for the most part). And, whatever the merits of his campaign, the fact remains that an intelligent and neutral observer, on examination of his record, can only conclude that Dr. Dean occupies a moderate to centre-right position on the political spectrum, and is hardly the liberal messiah his supporters portray him as. One also finds it rather disturbing that many in the Dean camp seem to find the campaign more important than the candidate; one would almost say that they're incapable of seeing the trees for the forest.

Something that's rather ironic...I've seen Dean supporters accuse the supporters of other candidates of "being incapable of independent thought", yet the attitudes and words of many of these same people constitute a most glaring example of the psychological phenomenon known as "groupthink" (characteristics of which, if you are unfamiliar with the term, include: Having an illusion of invulnerability; belief in the group's morality; use of mindguards to protect the group from negative information, etc).