Americans want to believe false things, as long as those things confirm their underlying beliefs
One of the fascinations of human psychology is how many people will believe anything--no matter how illogical and irrational--provided it confirms their underlying, related beliefs.
For example, surveys show that millions of Americans say they believe the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001 was "an inside job," a conspiracy by the government.
The fact that no one can quite explain WHY anyone in government would have wanted to do this--let alone what part of the government they think did it, or how such a large conspiracy could have been kept secret--doesn't faze these nutters, because their theory confirms what they believed all along.
In this vein, consider one aspect of the "9/11 was an inside-job" theory crowd is that what was billed as the fourth hijacked airliner being flown into the ground floor of the Pentagon wasn't what happened AT ALL! Instead it was either a) planted explosives, or b) a cruise missile.
Really, that's what the nutters believe.
It's hard to know how the nutters explain 2,950 missing people and four missing airliners. But I'm sure they have an explanation. Prolly involves alien abduction or something equally reasonable.
With that as background let's look at another example of people believing ridiculously false things because those things confirm what they WANT to believe:
In the hours after Democrats in the House of Representatives voted two articles of impeachment against President Trump, thousands of people immediately began wildly celebrating on social media crowing that “Trump is not the president anymore”.
But of course that's not true: He would only be removed from office if two-thirds of the Senate voted to do so--and at this point that seems exceedingly unlikely. Anyone over the age of 12 should know this, so in one sense it's astonishing that thousands of Americans actually believe Trump is no longer the president. But on the other hand it's not a surprise at all: American school kids aren't taught a lick about the Constitution. Schools are too busy pushing the Left's precious social-transformation agenda to bother with trivia like teaching the Constitution.
And let me quickly note that I'm not blaming all teachers, who are forced to teach what school boards demand or they'll be fired.
For example, surveys show that millions of Americans say they believe the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001 was "an inside job," a conspiracy by the government.
The fact that no one can quite explain WHY anyone in government would have wanted to do this--let alone what part of the government they think did it, or how such a large conspiracy could have been kept secret--doesn't faze these nutters, because their theory confirms what they believed all along.
In this vein, consider one aspect of the "9/11 was an inside-job" theory crowd is that what was billed as the fourth hijacked airliner being flown into the ground floor of the Pentagon wasn't what happened AT ALL! Instead it was either a) planted explosives, or b) a cruise missile.
Really, that's what the nutters believe.
It's hard to know how the nutters explain 2,950 missing people and four missing airliners. But I'm sure they have an explanation. Prolly involves alien abduction or something equally reasonable.
With that as background let's look at another example of people believing ridiculously false things because those things confirm what they WANT to believe:
In the hours after Democrats in the House of Representatives voted two articles of impeachment against President Trump, thousands of people immediately began wildly celebrating on social media crowing that “Trump is not the president anymore”.
But of course that's not true: He would only be removed from office if two-thirds of the Senate voted to do so--and at this point that seems exceedingly unlikely. Anyone over the age of 12 should know this, so in one sense it's astonishing that thousands of Americans actually believe Trump is no longer the president. But on the other hand it's not a surprise at all: American school kids aren't taught a lick about the Constitution. Schools are too busy pushing the Left's precious social-transformation agenda to bother with trivia like teaching the Constitution.
And let me quickly note that I'm not blaming all teachers, who are forced to teach what school boards demand or they'll be fired.
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