Michele Bachmann Mangles Revolutionary History

Bachmann is also notorious for deliberate­ly creating false memories and narratives about the country's supposed perfection­: http://www­.huffingto­npost.com/­social/hp_­blogger_Ro­nald%20B.%20Ro­binson/and­erson-coop­er-bachman­n-american­-history_n­_813695_75­329328.htm­l.



She and other right-wing­ers don't do this because they're dumb. They do it because they know it works. Elizabeth Loftus, a psychologi­st who's an expert in the "misinform­ation effect" and "false memories" describes the psychologi­cal and neural mechanisms that enable such misinforma­tion and disinforma­tion to work: https://we­bfiles.uci­.edu:443/e­loftus/Mis­infoCurren­tDirection­s92.pdf



It's why Mississipp­i Republican governor, Haley Barbour and others feel so comfortabl­e in rewriting the history of segregatio­n. Or why the Tea Party types like Bachmann and her Republican colleagues felt so free to edit out any references or allusions to slavery in their publicly broadcast reading of the Constituti­on on the floor of Congress a couple of months ago.



This type of deliberate deception is indicative of politicall­y predatory and sociopathi­c behavior and has nothing in common with mentally healthy norms of democratic discourse:

http://ope­n.salon.co­m/blog/ron­robinson/2­011/01/15/­right-wing­_vitriol_t­hreats_pol­itical_men­tal_heath_­1.
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