thegoodanarchist: < gezafan: <thegoodanarchist,> what is it that brought you back to sanity? What made you change?>Ultimately, cognitive dissonance works like this: When people are confronted with facts/data/reality that contradicts strongly held beliefs, they can either a) change their beliefs to conform to their newly acquired knowledge, or b) they can reject the new knowledge and cling to their beliefs.
Most people fall into category (b). But I am not like most people. never have been. My ultimate goal in the realm of learning is not to cling to what I believe is true, but to discover what I can know to be true. So I fall into (a).
And, whenever we get a new president, I always give him the benefit of the doubt. Even if I didn't vote for him, I reserve judgement so that I can make my judgement based on his track record.
And, I noticed that no one on the Left was doing that. Especially not in the Mainstream Media [MSM]. I noticed that they essentially went to war, immediately, to try to destroy Trump's presidency.
Any objective observer should have noticed that the MSM basically took it upon themselves to work with the Dems to illegitimize the election.
Around the same time (1 week before the 2016 election) I got red-pilled. I started to read a lot about intersexual dynamics and evolutionary psychology. Evo-psych, in a nutshell, refutes the foundation of both liberalism and feminism. Anyone who investigates game in the field, so to speak, will discover this.
Supposedly, feminism started organically with the Boomer generation, with the average Josephines of society rising up to demand their "rights". But now it is plain to see that feminism is actually promoted and forced upon society by various institutions, such as education, media and corporations.
We can see the same with race, with the institutions pushing and promoting BLM. I am old enough to remember when companies sought to comply with the law when it comes to non-discrimination.
Now they try to lead the agenda.
So I came to a big-picture understanding:
Our country's institutions were leading/pushing/trying to force:
1. The de legitimization of an election of an "old school" traditional American;
2. The de legitimization of societal norms that conform to human biology, in favor of norms like feminism that run counter to human biology (and that tear at the fabric of society);
and now 3. The de legitimization of a group of people based solely on their skin color, white genocide, when all along they've been telling us we aren't supposed to judge based on skin color.
That's the long answer.
tl;dr:
The short answer is, the MSM tried to cancel out the election of Donald Trump, so it was obvious that they aren't following the <al wazir> model, where they try as best they can to be objective. Instead, they are pushing the agenda of the elites who own the media (and who own the politicians).
<Liberals won't even accept obvious truths. How do we get them to listen and think?>
You can't reason with them - they are brainwashed. The only thing that remains is to have fun, by asking them questions that highlight their inanity.
The Z Man had a good podcast about it:
https://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=20...
IIRC, it is section 3, at the 17-minute mark. How to have fun with libs.
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