Last night I decided to get a hamburger at a local chain and happened to turn on my local PBS station to hear a program I hadn't known about called the Hidden Brain. A psychiatrist was interview regarding his work on understanding why we have two hemisphere's of the brain and their relation to how we perceive reality in two fundamentally different ways. It is this difference of view that I have, in my opinion, struggled to communicate in various ways over the years and found the what I thought of as a highly developed and articulate enunciation of those differences to be highly informative and usefully clear. I found the psychiatrists name and looked him up and found the following lecture he did on the same subject on TED. I personally believe that the information presented has profound bearing on how we view things generally but in relevance here to politics. The information is highly organized and efficiently, that is to say, densely packed, perhaps overwhelmingly so, but if you're interested, see what you think:
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Please, and for the love of GOD, learn what paragraph breaks are.
If we took your post and applied it to modern politics, then maybe we could analyze Trump derangement syndrome. This would include the supposed collusion with Russia to win the election, to him being a racist and sexist. There are various videos on youtube of people protesting Trump, and when exactly what Trump has done, they could not give an answer.
Another example are people who said they would vote for Hillary, and proclaimed how wonderful she was, yet could not name a single thing Hillary had accomplished.
Then there is the recent black face issue and outrage. People forget at one time it was socially acceptable to cover ones face in black. Should something that happened 40 years ago, and socially acceptable, cause outrage today? All they know is they should be outraged, but why are they outraged at something that happened 40 years ago?
People tend to put emotions before logic. When asked exactly to explain the foundation of their feelings on a topic are unable to do so. This puts them in an uncomfortable situation.
Maybe this goes back to our education system. Rather than teaching children to analyze the situation and for their own opinion, we look for teachers to teach us what we should believe. Once we finish high school and go to college, then professors teach students what they should believe. By the time we reach adulthood we have been conditioned to not think for ourselves, but to listen to others, such as the person in the talking box in the living room.
This could also go back to a childs desire to please those in control, such as parents and teachers. If we disobey, then we are scolded and disciplined. Through threat of punishment we give our desire to think for ourselves.
Once we reach adulthood we have gone through well over a decade of forced mind control at the hands of our parents, teachers, coaches... etc. The idea of free and critical thought is a foreign concept to most, as they regurgitate what the talking box tells us. The people on the talking box are placed in a position of authority by their social status, and millions of people fall in line to believe them.