Deep Denial Monkey Brain

[DeSwiss]

Deep Denial Monkey Brain

Thursday, June 21, 2007



How much denial can an ideological conservative minded victim stand? Ponder the following http://www.rightwingnews.com/mt331/2007/06/how_can_the_gop_be_losing_to_t.php">quote from John Hawkins of Right Wing News, as he laments the plight of his beloved GOP and the abysmal approval poll numbers of the currently Democratically controlled Congress:

"Yet, despite all these woes, the voters trust Democrats more than Republicans on 10 out of 10 "key issues" that Rasmussen tracks -- which raises an interesting question -- how bad do the Republicans have to be to be keep losing to the Democrats?

It's like going on Jeopardy and being crushed by Paris Hilton. It's like getting beaten up by Woody Allen. But, the Republicans are still somehow managing to be soundly defeated politically by the worst, most incompetent, least politically astute group of morons to ever reign on Capitol Hill."

And, yet... ideologues such as John still continue to support their GOP leaders. Mull on that a moment. And, know that John and his brethren aren't mulling on the reality, but on their denial of reality which is frightenly simple: The GOP leadership failed us to such an alarming degree on a myriad of issues that they have become a joke. Yet, the faithful trudge on. Why? Because they are unable to embrace anything beyond their myopic world view. Their hatred for anything beyond is all they know. And, what is one to do but hold onto the sinking ship as it goes down? Listen to those who told you the ship wasn't sea worthy to begin with? Ha! That would be weak!

Drowning in a shallow pool of your own making. Brilliant.

link: http://snafuprinciple.blogspot.com/2007/06/deep-denial-monkey-brain.html

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*** - In all honesty? I think its an insult to the monkeys to be compared with Repukes. I really, really do. Because at least monkeys will usually learn from their mistakes...

[Swamp Rat]

1. Monkey see monkey do.

[DeSwiss]

2. So that would make Dickie Boy....

...the Man in the Yellow Hat? Okay, I can see it, but he'd have to lose 50, 60 pounds....

:rofl:

[Az]

3. It is the cognitive dissonance of fixed moral authority and faith

They believe themselves to be absolutely correct. Thus any consideration of being wrong is not allowed. Thus even when they are crashing into the ground they cannot question the path take and instead must blame everyone else. Because they were right. They have always been right.

[DeSwiss]

4. Dissonance....

...and maybe just the fact that some can't accept being a loser. When you consider who supports the Republican party, and then who runs it, it is filled top to bottom with people who live in denial of the realities of the world. These are people who think you can dump your garbage and toxins into the air and water and there won't be any consequences. Or that the consequences won't affect them.

These are rich people whose money has come from the de-valued labor of others and they think this is how it should be and that "these people" (like the Iraqis) should accept their lot in life and just STFU.

These are mostly poor to middling people on the fringe of our society or are of the One-Track-Raptured-Mind Fundies who listen to demagogues like Falwell (now thankfully gone) Dobson, Limbaugh and O'Reilly. And they never question the motivations for the venom, the vitriol and the lies that issues forth from their lying mouths. Because it fits in with their own warped sense of entitlement over the "mud people" whom they despise.

Or it fits in with their fealty to and rendition of what the "Omniscient Protector" would want them to do and who somehow needs their help to set things straight. The super-being who created a perfect universe, but peopled it with imperfect creatures.

Dissonance, maybe. Stupidity, definitely. IMHO

DeSwiss