What I don't comprehend is so many people who reject facts in favor of fake. I say this objectively. There is no evidence of fraud, yet the fake newsies swallow that baseless story, hook, line and sinker. I comprehend that so many more people are lost in fake news than I previously thought. I don't comprehend how or why. Why do two people draw such different conclusions with the same information available? I think this is more about human behavior and psychology than something to understand from objective facts alone.
We got this tv show called MindF*ck, in which an illusionist tricks random people in the streets by abusing the psychology of the fallible human brain and it’s an eye opener. For example, he shows two photos with two rather different people and asks someone to choose one for a date. Then he sneakily swaps the two photos and shows the wrong photo and asks why the person chose that one. Everyone ends up defending their choice (which wasn’t actually their pick), nobody notices they‘ve been swapped. The target ends up explaining why she likes bald men even when she picked the one with hair. Or why they like people with glasses or red hair, while they actually picked a photo of someone without glasses or brown hair.
The human brain is programmed to confirm a previous choice, it even adjusts the memory of making that choice. This is on top of most people not wanting to be wrong (any forum member recognizes that). In their mind, they are not wrong. Any recollection is edited and cut to confirm their choice and beliefs. When you remember something, you don’t remember the actual event but remember what you remembered the last time you remembered it. And every time you do, that memory changes slightly towards what you want or fear it to be. For magats to admit Trump is full of shit, their brain has to admit that same brain didn’t function as well as they thought for 4 years. Anyone left in their social network, or cult, would have to be wrong.
Difference is perception isn't very helpful when one group takes its information from Russian propaganda, fake news stations and the right wing radio echo chamber while the other side, from facts based news reporting
Even without all those external factors (and flat out shameless liars on Trump’s side) people can easily fool themselves and each other. Add Russia‘s effort and it only gets far worse. Those are catalysts that led to that difference in perception, which is now a problem on its own. I think it’s important to learn which desires and emotions make them so vulnerable to believing falsehoods. They already
made up their mind about Trump, you cannot change that. To them you are anything but objective. (“you just hate Trump”). They see you similarly as you see them. Recognizing that fact is a step towards of the solution.
Why do two people draw such different conclusions with the same information available?
Bias. They too are certain they are being objectively right and everything they see and read confirms it. Not just russian propaganda or fox news, they’d actually draw similar conclusions from CNN, cherry-picking what confirms their beliefs. They also don’t understand how you cannot see their truth. Is it really that crazy for a magat to think the left would do anything to prevent another Trump term?
What Russia is exporting is what they’ve been doing to their own for decades. Spreading so many different versions of the ‘truth’, including the very opposite, so people can no longer tell which version is the actual truth. That’s unfortunately not something that works only on low IQ individuals. Americans were almost in the same boat the Russians are in. Heck, if Trump was just half as smart as Putin is...
ugh... I ramble when I smoke haze...
I'm disappointed that I still have to do this even though he lost
Do you really have to though? What happens when you don’t, and just enjoy and celebrate the fact Biden beat Trump and will be president? I just hate to see Trump have this hold over people on the left while he soon will be stripped of his powers. The craziest magats are also the loudest, a non-silent minority, and with Biden being centrist I’m positive about the future. As someone pointed out already, there are many republicans who voted for the republican candidate regardless of it being Trump. People who barely watch news and aren’t even active online. People who would have seen Trump for what he is if he were a democrat. Trump doesn’t have the majority on his side, he doesn’t have the army on his side, he doesn’t have most governors on his side, no decent allies in the world on his side, not even all gop senators, and as I expected, by far most judges are independent regardless of who put them in that position. It’s over, you can stand down for now, enjoy life, have a great 2021!