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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."
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