What are the Reasons for the 29% being "PERMAMENTLY FOOLED"

[opihimoimoi]

They seem to be of the type that "IF YA FOOL ME ONCE...I REMAIN FOOLED FOREVER"

WTF?

Some guys get paid to be a PUB but for the most part...the average Pub is not. Are they like brainwashed into a stupor?

WTH?

[Darkhawk32]

1. People give too many excuses for them. They're just plain stupid. n/t

[charlyvi]

42. Agreed.

And the shrubbies are there to validate all their racism, ignorance and intolerance toward any attitude other than their own. They can't realize that the bushies are validating them for their votes, then doing whatever the hell they want.

[opihimoimoi]

81. They are being scammed and still ignorant of it...

[BlooInBloo]

202. And evil. A lot of them are NOT fooled...

They just wanna kill some "ragheads"

America is full of this kind of "person", folks.

[opihimoimoi]

204. Sad but I think there is truth to this notion

[bdamomma]

205. it is a cult, draped in the flag and their sick perception of religion.

and thinking bush is their saviour.

[opihimoimoi]

214. Very much like other cults where the participants are drilled into

a state of mind rejecting truth, evidence, etc....that counters their belief...

This is sick..they have fucked up our Nation

[treestar]

2. Some people think it is a terrible thing to be wrong or even

mistaken. Sometimes I think it is that. They are so ashamed of being "wrong" that they hang onto whatever it is, no matter how ridiculous it looks, because being "wrong" would be so much worse.

[Skip Intro]

9. What I suspect as well. Some people will never admit they were wrong.

I went to work out of high school as a bagger at a grocery store. After a while, I was promoted to grocery manager, and the talk I was given by the store manager included this pearl of wisdom, "never admit you're wrong, never back down even if you're wrong." A good friend of mine, at the time, echoed the same sentiment not long after that.

There are people out there like that. And evidently, they comprise about 29% of the population...

[opihimoimoi]

14. You jogged my memory...that is true...I heard it too in the FIRE DEPT

Never admit....as best as you can get away with it...never admit..

[treestar]

19. It is something you will sometimes hear and something Bushco

seems to follow also.

[raccoon]

63. I think management has that attitude the majority of the time.

It's as if to admit they were wrong would mean they're "weak." That they actually make mistakes, same as the rank and file.

[Demobrat]

22. One time I almost got into an auto wreck

with a neighbor of mine who was speeding down our short one-way street - the wrong way. He stopped just long enough to explain to me that the close call wasn't really his fault because the street wasn't really one way. A cop had explained it to him, you see, it wasn't really one-way because the sign was down at the other corner. Later on I described the incident to a coworker who's comment was. "Of course. Never admit you're wrong. IT'S THE AMERICAN WAY." Apparently a certain percentage of people in this country are raised that way - and the majority become Republicans.

[opihimoimoi]

33. Exactly...never admit...."the majority become Pubs" . I love it..

[Jade Fox]

35. Geez, what an asinine world view.....

Anyone who thinks like that must have no sense of personal power. Too never admit you're wrong....?

[opihimoimoi]

39. Usually signs of a Narcissant person.

[opihimoimoi]

11. Is this in Psyc 245? LOL...sounds like it

[badgerpup]

30. If they are 'wrong' about this issue...

...it could open up a whole big damn can of worms about what other things they might have been wrong about...and then their whole worldview and little world-as-they-see-it (which isn't all too steady to start with) would come crashing down around their ears.

Scary thing to contemplate.
That's just my two cents worth of humble opinion...

[opihimoimoi]

41. Perhaps the major reason for clinging to their position even in the face

of defeat

[Seabiscuit]

109. Exactly... these stupid people who can never admit to ever being "wrong"

are fearful to the point of utter cowardice. To them, ignorance IS bliss.

Yet to think that a full 29% of Americans (who have had more material and informational wealth at their fingertips for more time than any other country in history) can be so mind-staggeringly fearful, wilfully ignorant and just plain dumb? THAT's scary in itself.

[opihimoimoi]

112. Such is Nature who sez not everyone crosses the schoolyard deserves to be

smart....Diversity demands Loloness

[coalition_unwilling]

126. They're the same crew who think "we could have

won in Vietnam." When you ask them what that "victory" would mean, they'll say it means the surrender of the DRV. When you ask "how we could have 'won'," they'll say we could have invaded the DRV (North Vietnam) on the ground and\or used nuclear weapons on them. There's really no arguing with them, as they are not susceptible to rational discussion, but instead cling to irrational nationalist myths.

[opihimoimoi]

131. Borderline Fanatics trying desperately to WIN even after the fact

Like the Football team who lost in the RoseBowl..."We coulda shoulda woulda...." but but but ....lost....

[bdamomma]

206. they are in denial also

when will they learn????????????????

[stepnw1f]

220. Admission of being Wrong is a Slippery Slope for Some

The fear is, they will somehow become more and more prone to being wrong, so they never admit they were. All fear.

[opihimoimoi]

242. its Cultish?? Cannot err, afraid of the CROW....etc, lol

[kentuck]

3. "You can fool some of the people all of the time..."

The Kool-Aid drinkers.

[opihimoimoi]

241. Its a Disorder...they allow themselves to be SCAMMED

They show signs of WANTING to be SCAMMED/CONNED/FOOLED by going with/investing in/ the Republican Party.....

They know its all BS but they mask that with a belief denying the truth...allowing DELUSION...which makes it all acceptable and in some cases, fashionable...

[eallen]

4. They're not fooled. They just hate us for our freedom.

Bush's base, the religious right, know exactly why they support him. They're not fooled. They're just evil.

[opihimoimoi]

17. Some are Good and some are EVIL, most of us are in between..

I suppose you are right...these peeps are EVIL and they Know it too and they just DGAF

[coalition_unwilling]

127. Rather than use culturally charged words like "evil," I prefer to

say that they are "ignorant," which is almost as much of a perjorative, but one that admists of possible correction, i.e., education.

[opihimoimoi]

130. Could a State of being Ignorantly Evil exist?? I happen to think it could.

[coalition_unwilling]

135. I believe there are evil actions, e.g., the invasion\occupation

of Iraq. But I'm not sure I believe there are evil people. Granted, some are beyond any hope of redemption, e.g., * and Hitler, but I prefer a "therapeutic" model to a "moralist" model of humanity. (However, having just written that, if I were going to use "evil" on any official in BFEE, I think I would save it for Rumsferatu and Dickhead Cheney

[opihimoimoi]

137. I believe we are on the same page and sentence even.

"Some are beyond any hope of redemption" sez it all.

In my mind, those who helped stealing our last 2 elections...whether they engineered it or merely point voters to the wrong polling station, etc are evil too...for they knew they were doing wrong, and yet they did it. The evilness goes from the ground workers to the top...

[bobbieinok]

159. some REALLY believe W was chosen by god

that god put his hand in the FL2000 ballot boxes and made sure W won....... I had colleagues who believed this; when I said 'my God doesn't steal elections', they just stared at me

there are some who only see abortion and believe only republicans will stop abortion

some are doing very well and think democrats are just weird and 'ivory tower and unable to deal with the nitty-gritty of reality' (one of my brothers)..... another brother who was 1 year in Vietnam and then in the reserve votes republican b/c 'of what happened in VN' (what does that mean???? I have no idea)

[opihimoimoi]

172. Still under the spell of the war hawks of the 60/70's

The core Pubs are revealed to be HARDCORE, stubborn, rigid, and frighteningly myopic.

[bdamomma]

207. they have just losted touch with reality

and believe everyone should think like them, impose their will and way of their thinking on others.

[opihimoimoi]

225. Isn't that DELUSIONAL? LOL, just a thought...my 2 cents

[Bitter Cup]

219. These are the real haters of Freedom.

People looking, acting, and talking differently is terrifying to this set. They find it obscene that anyone would differ with them and they find difference intolerable to the point where they will kill or sanction killing in the vain hope of eliminating it.

We often forget how frequently such "haters of freedom" arise from inside rather than outside. In fact, as far as threats and terrorism go, I suspect the vast majority have always come from inside the fence.

[opihimoimoi]

226. Yup, as in the Tim McVeigh guy

[Boomer]

5. Who say's they're fooled?

Bush is lining their pockets with war profits and tax breaks. Of course they support him.

[opihimoimoi]

18. I was refering to those who do not benifit financially from being a Pub

and in more cases than not...most actually lose money along with the rest of us...Bush is not a Profitable President for the Masses as Clinton was...Bush is a LOSER....LOOK at the EVIDENCE

[serryjw]

66. TRY this..My favorite article

quote......
Emotional blackmail (Demand, Resistance, Pressure Threats, Compliance and Repetition) is not used exclusively in personal relationships. It is used any time one group or person wants to force its agenda, opinion or will on another. You’ve probably witnessed it on the job and currently you can study the effects simply by turning on the news.

Each of these tactics has been used extensively by the media and the government in the United States since September 11, 2001 to push the agenda and create agreement within the US population and worldwide. Commentators like Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity are masters with this tactic and provide nightly opportunities to study it in action. Former President Bill Clinton knew well how to use emotional blackmail to his advantage. It is a persuasive tool. The purpose of emotional blackmail is to control, redirect and ultimately create a state of cognitive dissonance.

Cognitive dissonance is the state of confusion that occurs when facts become twisted into half-truths, colliding with common sense and suddenly you are convinced 2+2 = 5. Your instincts tell you something isn’t right; yet the information you are fed and exposed to counteracts your instincts causing you to doubt yourself. Some refer to this as Orwellian speak, the act of taking antonyms and presenting them as synonyms: War is Peace, Consent is Patriotism, Disagreement is Anti-American or Rights are Weaknesses. These are some of the Orwellian messages Americans are currently sifting through
end quote.......

http://www.couplescompany.com/features/politics/CogDiss...

[opihimoimoi]

70. Very well said my friend...WELL SAID and Points Taken

EMOTIONAL BLKMAIL..is also used by Cults and Churches too

[serryjw]

76. State of cognitive dissonance

we are living through like never before in our history. Remember, news is 24/7 and it's all so contradictory by MSM. It's easier to stay the course and continue to believe what you always have then have to dissect new information. When people are presented with two ideas they will always take the one that requires less change....it's just more comfortable.The country is aging. EVERYTHING that people held as truth is in question. The change is what is difficult.
People always KNEW that gay people existed in the shadows but NOW they demand their rights!

[opihimoimoi]

78. Yup, the disconnect thingy...if it don't feel good...forget it...

[serryjw]

79. We live in a 'feel good society'

IF I have to 'think' that may be painful, so I don't choose to!

[opihimoimoi]

83. Yup, "Whats the point spread on the Dallas game??" Who bringing the ribs?

[emulatorloo]

37. 29%? bush is lining the pockets of 29% w war profits and tax breaks?

EOM

[BOSSHOG]

6. Incredible Pride and Ignorance - "Conservative" DNA!

In their quiet moments they think of their flag waving and shouting down liberals back in late 2002 and early 2003. In their quiet moments now they know they were wrong but a "conservative" is much to proud to admit fault. The 30ish percent can't admit they were dumbucking wrong and duped by evil masters. They'd rather remain ignorant hoping upon hope that everything will be alright. For their own religious reasons the continued death of "ragheads" can be rationalized so they feel good about themselves. "conservatives" are the number one domestic enemy of the constitution and my hate is rational.

[opihimoimoi]

24. Yup, Its in their BLOOD, their PSYCH, and in their HEART

and they will never eat CROW...NEVER

[kestrel91316]

7. Motivation? They think that by supporting Bush, they will gain

money and power for themselves personally. They like the idea of grinding the competition into the dust with their bootheels.

It's all about money and power and ME ME ME ME ME ME ME ME.

[opihimoimoi]

20. AHHHH, the "ME" Syndrome AKA as the "MINE SYNDROME"

Its all about Me and Mine...fuck everyone else...

[PWRinNY]

147. Exactly

They're incredibly selfish. ME ME ME. It's all they care about.
"I resent working the first half of every year to pay taxes so your parents and grandparents can have medical coverage, or so your kids can eat."
"My taxes pay for them welfare queens."
"I'd rather be alive than free, to hell with your rights, I'll sell them right out to be safe from terraists."
Selfishness and fear motivate everything they do.

[opihimoimoi]

155. They are stuck on Level One...

Like a car with 5 gears....they only use one...the first gear....running around at 9 mph...not knowing there are 4 more gears...

[Minnesota Libra]

8. It's called "willful stupidity", "willful ignorance", take your choice nt

[opihimoimoi]

23. Evidence our Schooling System is Rigged to produce IGNORANCE

Shameful and Evil...it goes on and in fact...gets worse as I type...

[Davis_X_Machina]

10. It's not that complicated...

Somebody told them that if they voted the right way:

• that at Jesus' name every knee shall bend
  
• that taxes will never go up, and services will never go
  
• that corporations may get their money, but people who don't look like them never will
  
• that foreigners will tremble when they see our might
  
• that they'll get to 'keep their guns'
  
• that The Other -- women, fags, liberals, coloreds -- will know their place
  

And finally and most important:

• that all change will stop , now.
  

What's not to like?

[opihimoimoi]

25. The very very Rich and Powerful do not want Change..they want

to keep the Power and Wealth they have...and more if possible..

They nurture the status quo...

[bobbieinok]

160. yes indeed NO MORE CHANGE EVER

[populistdriven]

12. only watch fox news

[hwmnbn]

13. Think banjo music and ......

the theme from deliverance.

That's the only explanation.

[opihimoimoi]

56. OMG, INBREEDING????

[Scoody Boo]

15. The Number of People fool is much higher than that...

A big reason why the numbers for the President are falling is because of immigration (not because Republicans think he lied about the war).

[XemaSab]

26. Do you think that once folks start questioning him on immigration

they'll start questioning him on other things, like how he's never used the veto power once?

[Scoody Boo]

32. Even with the veto...

it is conservatives who are pissed off at him for not being conservative enough. If you are assuming the the 29% disapproval numbers means that now 71% will be voting Democrat then we will be set up for another failure.

It was Bush who tried to move the left on some things, not the Republicans and they are the ones that are dissatisfied. Bush had NO support on the left so those numbers are unchanged. It is conservative support where he is taking a beating.

The same thing with the war. Conservatives are dissatisfied with how the war is being fought because they feel that it has not been escalated to the point where we can win, not because the troops won't get pulled out.

Yes, there is plenty of dissatisfaction on the Right but for reasons completely different from the Left.

[opihimoimoi]

85. Bush has not won anything...Our Society is all about WINNING

Starts in Sports, etc

That Bush has been a failure is not acceptable to the Conservatives...they gonna shift gears and go get one...likje McCain for one...

I did not assume 71 % gonna vote Dem...its more like 25 to 34% just enough to landslide...

[XemaSab]

93. Oh, I'm not assuming that at all

I was just wondering if he were to shift back towards a hardline stance on immigration if he could win back some of the people he's lost, or if they've got problems with him on enough other issues that he will never see their support again. Or under what conditions they would return to him.

As far as the war goes, do you really think there's widespread belief that we aren't doing well among the right wing? 'Cause all I'm seeing is the typical kool-aid drinking nonsense that the MSM wants the war to go badly so they're only reporting the bad things and not the good things. But if you don't trust the media to report what's happening, how do you get any information? I know that individual soldiers have said that things over there aren't that bad, but one soldier can only see a fraction of the overall picture. And of course the army isn't going to say things are going badly. So what do the conservatives base their information on?

[opihimoimoi]

96. The Conservatives follow their Leaders who blind them with BULL CRAP

Their Leaders are the guys who pull the strings..thats right, THE GUYS...

Its a Male Dominated World they live in.

It started with the Jews and their Levites who over threw Heathens and Pagans

The Christians is an off shoot of the Jewish faith

So are the Muslims...

All have one thing in common...the MAN RULES

Ever since then, 2,700 years ago...its been down hill.

When men and women get parity, all will be well again.

[newportdadde]

122. I think your on the money here.

[Cleita]

67. No, the immigration issue is race baiting (not my words) pure

and simply. The war is racial in some aspects as well, so you're armchair Amurikan isn't worried about dead brown people half a world away. It's a sad commentary on those 29% of Americans, but that's what it is.

[opihimoimoi]

82. Pathetically sad...War is a BUSINESS gone wild...

[opihimoimoi]

74. The POWER has shifter from Congress to the Oval Office

Congress does the bidding of the President...hence no need to veto anything...he get what he wants...period...until now that is...

[blm]

16. Rapturistas who WANT the End of the World. They believe Bush is making it

happen.

[opihimoimoi]

47. Very STRONG POSSIBILTY here....very strong....

5 years of doing everything to cause conflict and counter production...

[blm]

59. No mystery - remember James Watt? We don't need to care for our land -

we won't need trees when we're Raptured.

Assholes.

[opihimoimoi]

71. WATT...the dude wanted to drill for oil off Santa Barbara

He was given the Shoe with a massive bullet hole in it ...by RR

[Hubert Flottz]

21. Some are from families who have always voted GOP cause dad

and mom did.

Some are doing what GAWD is telling them through the mouths of False "Prophets".

Some are doing it for gianormous tax breaks, contracts, perks and deregulation.

Some = The Sum = The Sum-bitches that have wrecked their own country, probably beyond the point of repair, because of their unpatriotic greed, laziness, blind faith and ignorance.

[opihimoimoi]

52. Ya said it all Hubert...

Some even mix the COOL AID....Damn

[Hubert Flottz]

62. Asininity-R-Us = the Grand Old Pity Party...

They need to quit using the ten commandments for a political stage prop and read and heed them!

Bush needs to FORGIVE people once in a while instead of always bombing them..."Ye must be bombed again," don't seem quite right to me! Gawd wanted the shock and awe thing, left in his own hands, I think. I'm starting to think that Bush is even lying about being a "Jesus Man"

[opihimoimoi]

80. Its the GREED or PEACE Party...they pick Greed all the Time

Bush ain't no jesus man...he is a fake

[bdamomma]

209. a very dangerous fake

[revree]

27. Members of a cult rarely wake up on their own...

They need deprogramming, or they end up committing suicide at their leader's bidding. Sound familiar?

[opihimoimoi]

36. Such is the extent of Brainwashing

Like in Jim Jones and Koresh

[Red Knight]

28. I work with one of those zombies

The guy has absolutely no grip on the issues at all--he's clueless. His research into the issues doesn't involve anything more strenuous than listening to Limbaugh and watching Bill O'Rielly. When I try to engage him in the specifics of issues he's lost. He's astonishingly ignorant.

I was talking to him about Bush's big tax cut and how little it would mean for him and his family and his reponse was that perhaps my numbers were provided by a liberal group and were distorted. He thinks he's getting much more without having a clue as to what that number is.

In Bush he trusts.

It's maddening. It's maddening because he VOTES! He knows NOTHING about the issues really or how it affects him but he VOTES!

And there are a lot more like him.

[opihimoimoi]

44. Mind boggling .....but its THERE...all 30 % of them...Incredible....

Pure Laziness or
Pure Stupidity??

[LibDemAlways]

118. I worked part time in an

office for a short while where these two cretins listened to Limpballs and Hannity all day. It was a small insurance company owned by a hard core repuke who paid them squat and treated them like slave labor. They were too dumb to realize that guys like Limpballs and their boss were taking advantage of their stupidity. One actually had a picture of the chimp and pickles in his cubicle.

I can actually understand why the wealthy vote repuke as a matter of self-interest. It's the idiots on the low end of the totem pole who consistently vote for those who are screwing them that I find most maddening.

[opihimoimoi]

125. When brains were being passed out...these peeps were fishing...

[DemonFighterLives]

156. Welcome to DU!

Zombies is right!

[Jade Fox]

29. They WANT a dictator...

a Dad figure. They are frightened, non-too-smart, childlike people wanting a leader who says, "Don't worry, just go about your business and I'll take care of things for you."

[opihimoimoi]

38. The TOO LAZY TO THINK Crowd....follows Rush for advice and comments

so they can sound smart...I know the type....Hopeless.

[BrklynLiberal]

31. Janeane Garafalo calls it "willful ignorance" .

It may be something in their water or a nutritional imbalance. Hard to say.

[TahitiNut]

34. Yep. Willful "ignorance and narrowmindedness." See my sig.

[BrklynLiberal]

49. Wow. I had been looking for that Edmund Burke quote a few days ago.

Thanks.

[bdamomma]

210. and being totally arrogant.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

40. check this out

A total of 14 percent of Americans have had or know someone who has had at least one Close Encounter of the "First," "Second," or "Third" kind. The largest proportion (12 percent) say they or someone else they know has seen a UFO at close quarters.

A 2002 Time-CNN poll found that 59 percent of Americans believe that the prophecies found in the book of Revelations are going to come true. Nearly one-quarter think the Bible predicted the 9/11 attacks.

A new survey on religious beliefs found half of all American adults believe in ghosts, almost a third believe in astrology and more than a quarter believe in reincarnation. Fifty-one percent of the public, including 58 percent of women, believe in ghosts, according to a Harris Poll of a cross section of 2,201 adults surveyed online between Jan. 21 and 27. Thirty-one percent of the public believe in astrology, including 36 percent of women, and 27 percent believe in reincarnation - that they were once another person.

[Hubert Flottz]

45. I believe in Monsters...

And I believe they are all in the GOP!

[opihimoimoi]

61. The NEWEST MONSTER is the DUDE in the CIA...Damn....

He sounds Evil, Looks it too, and he walks EVIL. Double damn...

[Hubert Flottz]

64. He's bush's little yes-man and he's vatching YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!11!1!11!1

[opihimoimoi]

77. He iz Vatching and Vistening to you too...Dis iz crazy life ve live, no?

[opihimoimoi]

54. Amazing stats.....How bout this one: 15% are ILLITERATE and 25%

are Alliterate

That makes it 40% of Americans who DO NOT READ..includes W Bush

Perhaps this explains your stats?? I think so...

[Jeffersons Ghost]

91. I think most the UFOers and other tin hats read as for Ghostists I'd agree

[upi402]

167. it's goofy when you see it

actuarially?

[Bonhomme Richard]

43. They are not being fooled.

They are just ignorant, nasty people who have huge inferiority complexes.

[Fleshdancer]

46. Spectator politics.

It's the same loyalty people have for a specific sports team, regardless of how bad the team sucks...it doesn't matter how many drugs the players are on, how many players/coaches on the team have been sued for rape/harrassment/abuse, etc. Team loyalty is considered a virtue for some odd reason.

They have "stayed true" to Bush from day one. They don't want to turn their back on their "team" just because times are tough.

[longship]

48. You can fool some of the people all the time.

But you cannot fool all the people all the time.

[opihimoimoi]

50. I wuz waiting for that one, LOL...The smell of Coffee has reached

new heights

[laundry_queen]

51. All of the above.

It's a mix of never admitting their wrong, stubborness, stupidity and narrowmindedness (why would you have a reason to change your position if you refuse to listen to anything that doesn't support it). It's also WANTING to be dictated to (read Alice Miller's "For your own good") and a healthy dose of wanna-be.

Bushbots remind me of those kids in high school that will do ANYTHING to be with the 'in' crowd. They will bully other kids if the 'in' kids tell them to. They will dress however, do whatever, as long as the 'in' kids tell them to. They fancy themselves as being 'in' simply b/c they kiss the 'in' kids' asses. They like the power and feeling of belonging (however false) that being with the 'in' crowd gives them. They think the 'in' kids are laughing with them when they are actually laughing AT them. But they don't get it, they think they're "IN".
Definition of a Bushbot.

[opihimoimoi]

55. Yes, its the Gang Syndrome??

All of the above seems about right...

[KyuzoGator]

53. They are just fucking stupid.

Don't beat yourself up hyperanalyzing it too much.

[opihimoimoi]

58. The Stupid Syndrome>>>? I love it....

[Anarcho-Socialist]

57. a number of reasons...

1. Religion - we understand how conservative evangelism finds common cause with the Bushist form of 'conservatism'. A lot has been written about this already.

2. Prestige - the conservative white working class has seen its social status decrease, as the black population has obtained increasingly greater rights (but not quite equal yet), and in some cases have benefited from social mobility, and are no longer expected to be subservient to the white working class. Homosexuals, once an invisible and totally un-tolerated minority have also benefited to some extent from social mobility and have become successful, leaving the conservative white working class behind. In times past, this underclass relied on social conservatism as a means to hold the white working class (men) high in status (over gays, ethnic minorities, immigrants) despite their poverty. In modern times this group finds it difficult to compete on level terms with anybody else and will often invent 'liberal biases' that put minorities and women at advantages ahead of him, to compensate his ego for his drop in status.

[opihimoimoi]

60. Yup, In order to compete on level terms, they must denigrate

These Pub guys are seeing their shrinks much more often these days

[Cleita]

65. I think it's hard for them to admit that they were wrong.

Epiphanies along with the accompanying mea culpas are hard for right wingers. Even Bush finally admitting he shouldn't have said what he said publically didn't seems to really believe it and he tried to make it into something joking and lighthearted. It's as if all the Americans, Afghanis and Iraqis, who are dead because of his policies, don't exist in his world and he was apologizing only for saying the wrong thing.

[opihimoimoi]

72. Crow, no matter how its prepared, is SO hard to eat...

[Cleita]

92. Especially if it prepared by a French chef French bistro style

or would they insist on calling it "freedom crow"?

[opihimoimoi]

97. Crow Under Glass?? LOL....

[guinivere]

149. Would you like freedom fries with that ?

Or maybe a nice French red wine?

[peace frog]

68. Bush's supporters cannot conceive of being wrong

because this administration perfectly reflects their own worldview: racist, homophobic, xenophobic.

[opihimoimoi]

73. LEVEL ONE IGNORANCE is ALIVE and WELL here in the USA

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

69. Um, not wanting to be "unfooled". There are none so blind, as those who

will not see.

What's the explanation for a wife who ignores the tell tale lipstick on the collar and mysterious phone numbers in the jacket pocket?

Same thing. Not wanting to see, despite obvious signs, so as to preserve the comfortable illusion.

[opihimoimoi]

75. Its a type of sickness? The wanting of the status quo so bad they

over look the obvious?

Ya got something there.

[karlrschneider]

84. It's been said "The hardest thing in the world is to know how to do

something and watch somebody do it wrong...and say nothing." I think that right up there with that one is that nobody likes to admit they've been played for a fool. So, many people who've been scammed (or even raped) are too ashamed to report or do anything about it.

[opihimoimoi]

88. The Mind prevents the action of "dummying up"

They hate to eat Crow....

[earth mom]

86. Brainwashing and Dehumanization of the Iraqis by "Christians"

keeps those 29% blissfully happy and content with their UGLY and NAZI like treatment of a people who did NOTHING to them or this country in the first place.

I would never call them "christians"-there is nothing good in what they do-they disgust me!

[opihimoimoi]

90. False Christians who use Religion as an excuse for Stupidity

and greed...

[kerry-is-my-prez]

87. Cognitive Dissonance- you ignore any facts that don't agree w/your beliefs

http://www.afirstlook.com/archive/cogdiss.cfm

People avoid information that is likely to increase dissonance. Not only do we tend to select reading material and television programs that are consistent with our existing beliefs, we usually choose to be with people who are like us. By taking care to ‘‘stick with our own kind," we can maintain the relative comfort of the status quo. Like-minded people buffer us from ideas that could cause discomfort. In that sense, the process of making friends is an example of selecting our own propaganda.


for example:
So if you believe in George W. Bush -- and polls say that a significant majority of Americans do -- but don't approve of cutting pensions for long-term workers, then (1) you can turn against Bush. Or (2) you can decide that Bush is right and that corporate interests are more important than worker pensions. Or (3) you can take the easy path and simply deny that pensions are in jeopardy.

"There's a prediction you can make down the line: The more unpopular his policies, the higher his poll numbers are going to get," Cooper continued. Why? Because we are human, alas. As long as we support someone, we must incrementally increase our approval in the face of criticism. .... people either abandon Bush or their faith in him rises to a level greater than the sum of the condemnation.

…Opposition can …. harden, although not necessarily deepen, one's base of support. And remember, there's no small number of fence-sitters willing to side with a winner against all comers no matter what the party affiliation."