Cognitive Dissonance

 "cognitive dissonance is the mental discomfort experienced by a person who simultaneously holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values".

Last week, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shocked the political world by being the world's first cute socialist.

Lord, I apologize. I know I'm not supposed to be noticing the looks of any young lady old enough to be my daughter. In fact, she is one year older than my 27 year old son. I want everybody to congratulate me on my restraint in NOT calling my son to point out that a person a year older than him will be sitting in Congress next year.

(To be fair, my son would point out that his scores in Call of Duty Black Ops 4 are way better than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.)

I was a little bit discombobulated by the fact that Ms. Ocasio-Cortez is so cute when she holds such goofy beliefs. Socialism has never worked and never will.  Of course, when you are cute, you can just about say or do anything.

So, I'm a little discomforted by a socialist being in The US  Congress and yet being so doggone young and cute.

There are other cognitive dissonances out there.

Liberals have been baying about "the children" a lot recently. One rule of politics: when someone starts talking about "the children" they are not talking about "the children". They are talking about the power they wished they had because they are talking about  "the children".  Meanwhile, they have no problem with late-term abortion.  Doesn't even bother them a bit.

I know what some of you are thinking. What about your goody two shoes Evangelicals and their support of President Orange?

True.  That is cognitive dissonance in the nth degree. Evangelicals know in their heart of hearts that Donald Trump is a couple of Corinthians short of a New Testament.  But they know that even though he is not quite deacon room ready, he will at least listen to them instead of trying to shame them.

The civility question. Everybody wants everybody else to be civil but they want to be able to yell at you. And it is no big deal that you get yelled at or asked to leave a restaurant, because, you know, your boss is like really gross.

Movies.  Have they stopped coming up with ideas for movies?  It seems like every movie is  from a comic book. Or it is about dinosaurs. I thought we answered the question: "Should dinosaurs and human co-exist?" years ago. (Answer to the question: No).  Yet, we line up and spend good money to see these awful movies which only encourages Hollywood to go back and more.

Food.  We know it is not good to eat four hundred pounds of beef at one sitting.  But we order it anyway and ask them to put a fried egg on top of it.

Probably the best way to deal with cognitive dissonance is to ignore it. That's what everybody else does.