Reply #71: In-groups have rules about pointing out inconvenient truths [View All]

that weaken the ”them verses us” conformity paradigm. And I glean from your comments that you are true to yourself and others, as well as creative. Well now…, that’s not exactly the stuff conformist followers are made of... To be a good follower you should know that in-group leaders are the ones whom in-group followers expect to hear the facts from, and followers are suppose to parrot what the leaders tell them, right or wrong… Be part of, support and spread the elusion. And if in-group followers have a habit of finding and pointing out that the leaders facts conflict with reality, such follower will find themselves amongst the out group, ignored and ridiculed as a traitor.

It’s sad to say that practically all republicans and most democrats follow the rules of this paradigm, although the exception seems to be more so among democratic in-groups, which are, instinctively, more amenable too objective facts, but that is, when and if such facts happen to show up, and are allowed to be seen and heard. This means the sheep dogs have to work their asses off to keep facts hidden from the democratic in-groups, as if the truth would rock the boat and set them free, which means the democratic paradigm is potentially fragile. But on the other hand, I don’t think sheep dogs have to work as hard when it comes to republican in-groups, because republicans are more authoritarian, their blinders are more individually inherent as well as collectively, which makes it easy for them to think that it’s wrong to question their leaders, on top of that they have a profound difficulty with things like syllogisms and hypocrisy, etc…