How does cognitive dissonance help white people respond to racist political dog whistles?

The Pernicious Role of Cognitive Dissonance in our Social Intercourse


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Cognitive dissonance helps survive mental crises but it also helps us maintain erroneous beliefs like racial enmity that then respond to racist dog whistles and cause otherwise “decent” white people to vote Republican.

How have we encouraged increases in sexual assault against teenage girls?

This Week in Sexual Assault


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In a very twisted and real way conservatives encouraged sexual assault against teenage girls during the #COVID19 pandemic lockdown by doing everything in their power to keep the pandemic and lockdown going. We’re reaping the results of those efforts now.

How destructive have the large number of politicians with dark tetrad personality characteristics been to our politics and to the House?

The Outsized Influence that the Dark Tetrad of Personality Characteristics has on the House and Our Politics


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During the past couple of weeks I came face-to-face with the destructiveness of dark tetrad personality characteristics both in my personal life and in the SOTUS. The behavior of House Republicans makes a stark illustration of just how impossible large gatherings of personality disorders make cooperation and achieving goals. Craven self interest will be the downfall of human kind.

A Quickie: The Nightmare Elections that Republicans Long Feared


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That’s the boogeyman that Republican mothers and fathers have been scaring their children with by telling them that it is lurking under their beds and inside their closets and will take them away if they aren’t good and give all their money to the very very rich millionaires and billionaires who feel like they don’t have enough and deserve even more.

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