The wing-nuts: do ya think they get it yet??

[casual hex]

This ports thing...do you think that this incident has Enlightened a sizable portion of the wing-nuts, so that perhaps they get it now?

This cabal in the White House and Pentagon...this isn't politics as usual, this isn't even corrupt politics as usual, this goes beyond politics. The US is in the midst of a take-over. The fact that boosh was willing to go so far out for this deal should indicate to the sentient that this wasn't about an Arab company just operating a port, this was about opening a free and clear passageway into and out of the US.

They wanted to create their own little physics-defying wormhole into the States. Money/drugs/nukes/people/God-knows-what-else would pass magically from without to within, and money/arms/children would pass effortlessly out with no pesky records to put a damper of things. What a dream for the traffickers.

Bush was willing to give his base the finger over this. And they were so worried about the "security".

Do you think they get it yet?

[wakeme2008]

1. LOL the wing-nuts have not caught on to * "Guest Worker" program...

They have not figured out that * fix for all the illegals is to give them a "Guest Worker" cards so they are no longer illegals and open our borders to as many "Guest Workers" as want to come here.

[GrumpyGreg]

2. Gotta have that cheap labor,dontcha know?

[Dr Ron]

3. No

They live in their own alternative reality. They believe what they hear on talk radio and Fox News, just as many believed what Pravda said in the USSR. They ignore real news, attributing it to a biased liberal media which they've been told exists and cannot be believed. They are incapable of fact checking or analyzing information.

New events will not change this. There's already been ample evidence that the Republican leaders are out for power and are devoid of principle. If they haven't caught on yet, most are not going to do so.

[pauldp]

4. Cognitive dissonance is a bitch.

Heads are exploding with the revelations.
I'm loving it. It's like shooting fish in a barrel:

UAE IS CONNECTED TO AL QAEDA!
UAE CENTRAL BANK LAUNDERED MONEY FOR THE 911 ATTACKERS!
UAE ROYALTY PARTIED WITH BIN LADEN AFTER HE ATTACKED US IN AFRICA!


<snip>
Cognitive dissonance is a psychological phenomenon which refers to the discomfort felt at a discrepancy between what you already know or believe, and new information or interpretation. It therefore occurs when there is a need to accommodate new ideas, and it may be necessary for it to develop so that we become "open" to them. Neighbour (1992) makes the generation of appropriate dissonance into a major feature of tutorial (and other) teaching: he shows how to drive this kind of intellectual wedge between learners' current beliefs and "reality".

Beyond this benign if uncomfortable aspect, however, dissonance can go "over the top", leading to two interesting side-effects for learning:

if someone is called upon to learn something which contradicts what they already think they know — particularly if they are committed to that prior knowledge — they are likely to resist the new learning. Even Carl Rogers recognised this. Accommodation is more difficult than Assimilation, in Piaget's terms.
and—counter-intuitively, perhaps—if learning something has been difficult, uncomfortable, or even humiliating enough, people are less likely to concede that the content of what has been learned is useless, pointless or valueless. To do so would be to admit that one has been "had", or "conned".

http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/dissonance.htm

[TaleWgnDg]

5. The label, "wingnuts," is self-descriptive, e.g., too crazy to have

any meaningful input offset their blind faith in religion. In short, "wingnut" personifies what it is to be closed-minded.

So why should anyone expect such a person to have any capacity to assimilate reasonable thinking?


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