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kentuck

(111,110 posts)
Sat Jul 6, 2019, 10:52 PM Jul 2019

It appears that our country has now entered a phase of cognitive dissonance.

Where what they believe is happening is in conflict with what they want to happen? Where their thoughts and attitudes are inconsistent with their beliefs?

Less and less seems to make rational sense.

How does one rationalize a President issuing an executive order to over-ride an order of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court? How can that happen in our system of government?

How can the leader of the free world talk about airports and aircraft during the Revolutionary War period?

Does he really not know better?

These are very confusing times.

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It appears that our country has now entered a phase of cognitive dissonance. (Original Post) kentuck Jul 2019 OP
This country is having a nervous breakdown SHRED Jul 2019 #1
It is like there is an unreported epidemic randr Jul 2019 #2
I blame religion for lots of societal ills... Wounded Bear Jul 2019 #3
As they're driving to church each Sunday, I would want them to see... KY_EnviroGuy Jul 2019 #6
Christians only love WHITE children so your billboards won't work. Still In Wisconsin Jul 2019 #7
I'm afraid we ain't seen nutting yet. safeinOhio Jul 2019 #4
President Andrew Jackson (his hero)got away with it. GeorgeGist Jul 2019 #5

Wounded Bear

(58,713 posts)
3. I blame religion for lots of societal ills...
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 12:48 AM
Jul 2019

and especially for the cognitive dissonance. Religion requires acceptance of paradoxes. It takes a lot of blind faith to accept what's going on as being somehow "godly."

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,494 posts)
6. As they're driving to church each Sunday, I would want them to see...
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 11:17 AM
Jul 2019

a huge billboard with a photo of a child at the border being ripped from its parents, or one of those many we've seen of the detention camps with kids in cages.

Or, some factual stuff like "enjoying paying for Trump's tariffs yet?" (maybe that one should be beside a Walmart).......

GeorgeGist

(25,323 posts)
5. President Andrew Jackson (his hero)got away with it.
Sun Jul 7, 2019, 11:06 AM
Jul 2019
Remembering the Time Andrew Jackson Decided to Ignore the Supreme Court In the Name of Georgia’s Right to Cherokee Land
[link:shorturl.at/nqGP2|

So yes Trump knows 'better'.
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