What the left continually fails to appreciate is how far from them psychologically MAGA are. I read this this morning, which resonated with me:
If people expected that the fact that Tucker Carlson was exposed as secretly hating Trump was going to change any Maga minds, I’ve got bad news for them. Most Maga that I have seen now love him even more.
There are a lot of pundits who appear puzzled by this. They just can’t believe it. WHY they muse. This is PROOF. This is proof tucker was lying. Indeed it is. But I think many pundits are missing the point here. Maga — some members anyway — know Tucker lied to them. Of course, they do.
This will not change any minds. I mean — perhaps a few will be shocked, but by and large, most Maga minds won’t be changed because Maga doesn’t care. Owning the libs — winning — getting the last word — has replaced many other hobbies for these Maga people with children’s brains. Instead of doing whatever they did before — they can win on Twitter and other social media.
And their way of winning is to stand behind their team every time — for better or worse, forsaking all others till prison do they part. And right now, their team is Trump — and Tucker — and Fox. And it doesn’t matter what Tucker says or does. Clips could come out with Tucker laughing at Maga, calling them names, but it won’t matter to them.
They are in it to win it, and their twisted idea of winning means insulting the libs, proclaiming themselves truth-tellers, and insulting anyone with Ukrainian flags. These people will never care what Fox does as long as Fox and others craft their news to cater to Maga’s heart and minds.
There's a fascinating cognitive bias called false consensus, which is based in the assumption that while we may have different memories, tastes, opinions, etc., that we are still basically mostly the same as one another, and that what ones finds shocking or offensive is experienced that way by most people, but they are wrong and keep being wrong this same way. These are the people who ask such people how they can sleep at night, people who don't understand why the question was asked. From Wiki:
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In psychology, the false consensus effect, also known as consensus bias, is a pervasive cognitive bias that causes people to “see their own behavioral choices and judgments as relatively common and appropriate to existing circumstances.” In other words, they assume that their personal qualities, characteristics, beliefs, and actions are relatively widespread through the general population."
They sleep just fine. And they consider people with consciences suckers or faking it. They're not like the rest of us. They're only the same shape.
