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Two psychologists Brittany Liu and Peter Ditto from the University of California-Irvine
conducted a study to evaluate how liberals and conservatives dealt with so called hard truths
in areas that they may not be prone to believing because of their ideologies.  The study looked
at four areas – two of these areas are supported by liberals and detested by conservatives
and two are supported by conservatives and detested by liberals:

#1 – Educating kids on condoms

#2 – Embryonic stem cell research

#3 – The death penalty

#4 – Water boarding captives

Even though both liberals and conservatives alike had a tendency to rationalize their views
… conservatives created a new reality essentially in all four of these areas in order to square
their thought process.  The conservative movement by and large suffers from this; another
term for this is cognitive dissonance.  For whatever reason – the brains of conservatives just
make stuff up in order to justify their support for two conflicting beliefs.

Conservatives are against “socialism” but love Medicare.  They hate Obamacare but nominated
a guy who created the model for Obamacare.  They’re against abortion but don’t want to teach
kids about condoms.  They don’t like Wall Street but want fewer regulations.  The list goes on.
  And that’s why people search for the news that reassures them that they are correct instead
of simply searching for the truth; cognitive dissonance is the reason that Fox News is profitable.