NK announces Closure Of Nuclear Test Site, Suspending Missile Tests

[Dill]

(12-11-2018, 02:08 PM)GMDino Wrote: I don't get when people take disagreement as scoffing.  Do I think people got fooled? Yep. That doesn't make them inferior or stupid.  Refusing to accept when facts change might make them less smart than others.

That's sort of what I was trying to get at in post# 63.

Issues are pre-framed so that critique of bad judgment, or even just disagreement, can be cast as elitists looking down on right wingers.  At the very least it precludes analysis and often changes the subject, as the "elitist" must now explain he didn't mean it that way and otherwise help protect the person who got fooled from recognizing and owning what just happened. 

Nevermind that the poor victim of elitism was just himself looking down his nose at stoopid "librals" who don't get it.

So what began as exposure of poor judgment turns back into confirmation of the worldview which led to the poor judgment.

Feedback loop thus cut, the vicious circle continues. Trump 2020!