{"id":4650,"date":"2008-10-26T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4650"},"modified":"2017-11-04T06:03:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T11:03:46","slug":"cognitive-dissonance-it-gets-some-voters-through-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/26\/cognitive-dissonance-it-gets-some-voters-through-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive Dissonance: It Gets Some Voters Through The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bookworm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookwormroom.com\/2008\/10\/24\/if-ignorance-is-bliss-tis-folly-to-be-wise-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">recounts a conversation with a liberal friend<\/a>, who has a mantra when confronted with the liberal leaders&#8217; plans as stated in the liberal leader&#8217;s own words:<\/p>\n<ul><i>No, he&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p>No, they&#8217;re not.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s just not true.<\/i><\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s sort of like this DJ friend I have, also a liberal coincidentally, who doesn&#8217;t know a lot about the lyrical content of the songs he plays.  He only knows to play something up tempo and something slow for the people to dance.  So he&#8217;s caught by surprise when the bride writes on his little information sheet, &#8220;Don&#8217;t play &#8216;Soldier Boy'&#8221; and he asks the groom, &#8220;Is that don&#8217;t play &#8216;Soldier Boy&#8217; or should I play it?&#8221; and the groom says, &#8220;Play it,&#8221; and then the bride rushes off and the bride and groom withhold payment.  You know, those words mean things.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how many voters of either stripe don&#8217;t actually listen to the words, but like the hip beats that the parties spin.  I&#8217;d like to think that the subrational party does it more, but I imagine there are the subrational in our party, too.<\/p>\n<p>But when a Congressman says he&#8217;s going to take 401(k) money for the slush fund, you&#8217;d better believe he means it.  If a leader of a country threatens radioactive fire upon a democratic nation that happens to be mostly Jewish in population, you&#8217;d better hear more than the tone of the voice.<\/p>\n<p>(Plus, free taunt: For someone who calls the blog &#8220;Bookworm Room&#8221;, I have to say, &#8220;You have some books?  How cute!&#8221;  Which reminds me, I need to get an update to the <a href=\"http:\/\/stlbrianj.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/noggle-library-2008-update.html\" target=\"_blank\">Noggle Library<\/a> to account for the 3 or more new bookshelves.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bookworm recounts a conversation with a liberal friend, who has a mantra when confronted with the liberal leaders&#8217; plans as stated in the liberal leader&#8217;s own words: No, he&#8217;s not. No, they&#8217;re not. That&#8217;s just not true. It&#8217;s sort of like this DJ friend I have, also a liberal coincidentally, who doesn&#8217;t know a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17273,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650\/revisions\/17273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}