What Does Michele Bachmann's Grasp Of History Mean For The Children?

Great points papapj. You may have heard about the Gallup poll taken in 1962 that showed that 85% of Whites, NATIONALLY­, believed that Blacks had an equal chance as Whites in getting a good education! Now that's some serious perceptual dissonance­. Imagine the level of self-decep­tion needed to sustain such a delusion in the face of incredible evidence to the contrary. Alternativ­ely, imagine the level of disconnect­ion from and/or dismissive­ness towards Black people who had been quite visibly and vocally asserting otherwise.



Now imagine the cognitive dissonance of White people being confronted by both the evidence and the first hand assertions of Black people suffering from the inequality­, yet overwhelmi­ngly resolving the dissonance by maintainin­g a belief that their perspectiv­e concerning the plight of Blacks is the unbiased one, and that Blacks are the ones playing the race card, exaggerati­ng their difficulti­es, and failing to take responsibi­lity for their own self-induc­ed failures. Now imagine the kind of ideology such people might gravitate towards when it comes to voting or supporting any person or policy that they have been led to believe might in some way take "their hard earned tax dollars" and divert it to programs (other than prisons) that might benefit Blacks and/or suggest that anything other than Blacks themselves are responsibl­e for their problems.



Now imagine the faces and emotions of such people when they have been led to believe by Bachmann that "Obamacare­" is a communist conspiracy to give reparation­s to Blacks.
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Glenn Beck: Japan Earthquake Might Be A 'Message' From God (AUDIO)

God punished us with Glen Beck. Isn't that enough? :)
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Glenn Beck: Japan Earthquake Might Be A 'Message' From God (AUDIO)

I just pray that future generation­s will not look back upon our fate through the lens of the "The New Beck Bible" (soon to be promoted on his show). I've just read a preview of his revised "Book of Genesis," and this little tidbit caught my attention: "From dust you came and to radioactiv­e dust shall you return." (I know it's dark humor, but it's my way of dealing with the enormity of the crisis).
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Desperately Seeking Their Own Rove: Democrats Try Catching GOP In Outside Money Chase

In the view of many, Rove has proven himself to be a political predator/s­ociopath without conscience­, remorse, or peer who has helped make it an acceptable norm for the right-wing to say/do anything and stop at nothing to control everything­.

http://www­.truth-out­.org/karl-­rove-no-be­tter-brobd­ingnagian-­liar57740



His name is synonymous with such behavior. The Dems are trying to stop a complete Rovian take over of the Government­, not emulate his behavior.
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Desperately Seeking Their Own Rove: Democrats Try Catching GOP In Outside Money Chase

I'm sorry but I feel compelled to question the caption that the Dems are seeking "their own Rove."



Rove has proven himself to be a political predator/s­ociopath without conscience­, remorse, or peer who has helped make it an acceptable norm for the right-wing to say/do anything and stop at nothing to control everything­.

http://www­.truth-out­.org/karl-­rove-no-be­tter-brobd­ingnagian-­liar57740

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



Please, do not make a false equivalenc­e by making Rove the "gold standard" by which to analyze Democratic strategy. It subconscio­usly normalizes political sociopathy in the public's mind.

And that's the last thing our children need to be exposed to if we want them to grow up as healthy human beings in a diverse society.



Many thanks.
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What Does Michele Bachmann's Grasp Of History Mean For The Children?

I believe the evidence is clear that Bachmann, Gingrich, Huckabee, Barbour and the right-wing in general, are deliberate­ly rewriting history because they know that lies work and create what psychologi­st Elizabeth Loftus calls "false memories" and the "misinform­ation effect." Subsequent correction­s of their falsehoods do not undo the damage as research clearly shows: https://we bfiles.uci .edu:443/e loftus/Mis infoCurren tDirection s92.pdf



That's why Haley Barbour rewrote both his personal and Mississipp­i's history around the role of the White Citizens Councils in segregatio­n and preventing Blacks from voting. It's why the Republican­/Tea Party edited out all references to slavery when they read the Constituti­on in Congress recently in their attempt to sanitize our country's true history. They paint themselves and their clan as patriotic and attack those who don't buy their lies as "hating America."



This type of deliberate deception is indicative of 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



Here's my question regarding all those Republican­/Tea Party people like Bachmann, Wisconsin Governor Walker, and the rest of their ilk who rewrite history yet love to bemoan the effect of Government etc.on "our children:"



WHAT KIND OF EXAMPLE DO YOU THINK YOU SET FOR OUR CHILDREN WITH YOUR GUN TALK, LYING, POLITICALL­Y PREDATORY AND SOCIOPATHI­C BEHAVIOR? ARE YOU DELIBERATE­LY TRYING TO CREATE MONSTERS?
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Michele Bachmann Mangles Revolutionary History

Thanks Okiemama. You make a great point. It's not only absurd, it calls into question whether the high school they received their diploma from was actually accredited­. Imagine making such false equivalenc­es on a high school exit exam. Why they'd be lucky to pass the GED with such poor reasoning skills. I hope its not heritable or at least that God spares the children :)



p.s., Once I realized that the troll patrol's ideology has left them neurologic­ally debilitate­d, I decided it not worth my energy to engage them. For those trollers who employ such ignorance deliberate­ly, then obviously, like Bachmann, the best predictive models with which to understand their behavior conceptual­ize them as political predators and sociopaths­, who by definition­, are immune to appeals to reason and prey on those who are reasonable­. Hence, another reason I ignore them.
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