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I posted a link to this article in another thread but I decided it needed its own thread.The reason this writer,Deborah C. Tyler,has so much insight into the psychological profile of Obama resides in the fact that she has earned her Phd. in psychology.This article was written last year but it still possess validity,even today.


The psychological processes which prevent people from facing facts when the unthinkable has become obvious can be explained by the models of social psychology called cognitive dissonance theory.

Cognitive dissonance is the mental stress and discomfort caused when important beliefs, attitudes or values, called cognitions, are inconsistent, conflicting or contradictory to each other. In the 1950s the psychologist Leon Festinger theorized that the mind spontaneously, continuously reduces cognitive dissonance to enable goal-directed functioning in a paradoxical, inconsistent, deceptive world. Festinger's discovery founded a rich tradition of research which has demonstrated how the mind resolves contradictions. It provides a powerful way to understand why people can't face what President Obama is doing to America.

Research has demonstrated countless times that cognitions do not have to be true to create dissonance, they just have to be believed. Barack Obama was elected to reduce the dissonance between the beliefs 'America is the land of the free', and the falsehoods 'America is still racist' and 'President Obama will go a long way to solving the problem of racism.' Because 'America is racist” is false, its corollaries are equally false. 'We must elect a black Democrat -- not black Republican -- because Republicans don't emphasize America is racist. Obama is fabulous, no need to know much about him, or whether he can lead the nation. He will make us feel better about ourselves'.

The antecedents of Barack Obama's hatred of America are now well understood. Obama was groomed from the womb to abhor this white majority, predominantly Christian free enterprise Republic. From his expatriate, capitalism-hating mother, from his alcoholic Communist father and his perv Communist mentor, detesting America was in his mother's milk and the blood in his veins. But it was the murderous Bill Ayers who recognized in Obama a destructive potential greater than a million bombs cooked up in basements. Ayers concocted the poison cocktail called Barack Obama that everybody wanted to drink, but nobody wanted to taste first.

America is Barack Obama's prey. He is tearing America apart and feeding the pieces of her life to his foreign and domestic fellow travelers. He is not transforming the nation but terminating it. Even the most transformational administrations haven't enabled the murder of Americans by declared enemies, weakened the national defense, mocked the concerns, and dimmed the hopes of average Americans as this president has. Even the highly transformational Franklin Roosevelt did not return Nazi generals to the enemy during the war as Obama did in the Bergdahl swap. Roosevelt did not entertain and enrich Nazi bigwigs as Obama has the Muslim Brotherhood. Imagine Roosevelt facilitating German atom bomb research and enriching the Axis powers as Obama has in the Iran deal. No president has erased the nation's borders at land and sea as Obama in advertising inducements for an invasion from around the world. No president in American history has aided enemies, undermined the economy and derided the American people as the current commander-in-chief.

The immensity of Obama's disloyalty is key to why people cannot face the truth about him.

If the Obama election were going to reduce the dissonance he would have started his administration thusly: “As I have said, we are one nation, going forward together. Mine will be the first truly color-blind administration in American history. Every appointment I make will be based solely on qualifications and proven competence without reference to race.” Of course, this is the opposite of what Obama did. He fine-combed through America searching for scraps of racism. He strengthened the lie that America is a racist nation as cover for his destruction. Amongst innumerable examples: Attorney General Holder introduced the Obama administration by implying the white majority are all racists, built a DOJ whose foremost concern is racism, carried forward by Loretta Lynch, who just said a street strewn with American corpses murdered by Jihadi terrorists is a “wonderful” opportunity to fight racism.

America is racist, so illegals can enter unchecked. America is racist, destroy her free markets, send billions to nonwhite people as “warmist” reparations for her ill-gotten success. America is racist, empower and enrich her enemies like Iran. Barack Obama and his ilk experience zero cognitive dissonance regarding the contradictory beliefs 'America is about freedom' and 'America is racist'. They never believed that America or her Constitution are about freedom. They believe the incurably evil and racist America must be eliminated for the good of the world.

Before the mass denial of Obama's hatred is explained by dissonance theory, let's mention subdissonant Americans. Subdissonant Americans have no discomfort whether America is about freedom or racism because they are too intellectually limited, dumbed-down, or drugged out to care. If asked “Why does the sun shine?” a six-year-old will answer, “That is what the sun is 'post to do.” This is termed the moral explanation of concrete thinking. Based on IQ distribution, approximately 15% of the population do not think beyond the moral explanation, and do not recognize a president who isn't doing what he is supposed to do. Other subdissonant groups are those too ill educated or addicted to care about freedom or racism.

Festinger's induced-compliance paradigm of dissonance theory explains why black Americans may be the last group to face Obama's destructiveness -- because his policies have hurt them the most. In a famous experiment, people were instructed to lie to others and say a boring task was interesting. The induced-compliance paradigm found that people paid only $1 to lie convinced themselves they were telling the truth more than people paid $20 to tell the same lie! This counterintuitive effect has been replicated many times. People who received minimal external motivation for managing dissonance -- those paid the least -- produced stronger internal justifications to deny their actual experience. The underpaid believed their own lies better than those paid twenty times more. The overpaid say, “I'm in it for the money, period.” This is why many very wealthy people slug the colada in Obama's banana republic while the poorest blacks continue to justify the president, even as they get poorer.

Obama is destroying America overtly and covertly. By promoting policies which are normalizing harmful drugs, undermining the natural family, and generally promoting moral chaos he slyly increases the number of subdissonant Americans, people too ill or distracted to care. He has brainwashed or bought off virtually the entire government including the Republican establishment. A noble people who years ago would have resolved dissonance by believing in America's goodness and standing firm against tyranny no longer do.

The social psychologist Elliot Aronson advanced cognitive dissonance theory, further explaining why people can't face Obama's hatred and destruction. Aronson's self-concept model theorized the central purpose of dissonance reduction is to preserve positive self-image (I am a good person) and self-justification (I was right all along). Because so many Americans now have been convinced we are a racist nation, to maintain a positive self-image people cannot face the truth about Obama.

The loss of opportunities and the diminishing of hopes which Obama's policies have inflicted create a monumental need for self-justification among his supporters. “The president shows us America is still racist. We were right all along.” They have let go the truth that America is about freedom. No one knows how many still stand upon that truth, how many care, or if there are enough big lies left to elect Hillary.


http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/12/why_people_cant_face_the_truth_about_obama_.html

An excellent read that explains much (de facto) about human nature in general.

Nailed the snowflakes for sure.

If people who read this become educated as to what Obama really is, they haven't been paying attention for the last eight years at a minimum. Half the country, I suspect.

yep! If they need to be told that the porch monkey is a worthless POS then they shouldn't be wasting good air..

They can't handle the truth

That is a good read!

good article explaining as much about a lot of our society as it does about obama, and the inability to reconize what was there all along.
Over the last couple of days i have sat in my car while wife went in to do some shopping at sam's club, walmart, etc. Part of this was placing monitor/guard from the store door to the car.
It's depressing to watch the sheep around those areas, just as it's depressing to watch those animal mobs at some shopping centers over the holidays. Mostly they are black animals.

What, a diversity quota on the White House isn't a good idea?

Sportingspecialist: I do not know who wrote your posted article but they are right on - albeit about 6 or 7 years to late!
I have been espousing (here and in many other places!) for 7+ years that barrack hussein obama and many other top officials in his regime ARE America hating, racists, deceitful, dishonest, divisive, anti-capitalist, pro-socialists and pro-Muslim - to the great detriment for our country.
I can NOT wait for the last minute of this evil bastards days in office!
barrack hussein obamas whole life has been based on deceit, distortion, dishonesty and race baiting - I DO NOT expect that to ever change.
He and his chumpchimp woman will leave the Whitehouse with even bigger chips on their shoulders than they arrived with!
Sad that.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Her name is listed at the head of the article in the link.

Her name is Deborah C. Tyler.

I know I'm preaching to the choir but you can never tell who may pop into this site and read some of the posted articles.Our kids and some of their cousins have helped to educate their peers with books written about Obama.My wife and I have personally read "The Obama Nation","Liberty and Tyranny","The Manchurian President","Crimes Against Liberty" and "Culture of Corruption".

These publications as well hundreds of op-eds have infomred us and our family about Barry Soetoro.

PS:I amended the post to include her name in the body of the post.

ss, in most all cases we find the solid truth to be very unnerving and most inconvenient.

Absolutely.

This may be the reason that 70% of the public no longer trusts the media.The lame stream media,has for eight years,avoided the truth about Obama.

If I recall correctly, the MSM now enjoys a lower approval rating (nationally) than do lawyers and congress.

I watched Chris Matthews a few times lately and he, right now, can't schitt in a #3 washtub. Crestfallen.

True, and many people can't admit the truth about themselves. Hence it's easy for them to vote for a false candidate.

Black, green, or purple why would anyone vote for someone who is destroying the world we live in? Blind and stupid is the only answer I have.

Opportunities for cognitive dissonance abound on all sides of the political spectrum. It requires that folks set aside partisanship and, well, cogitate.

Instances of that do NOT abound.

Chumpchimp and porch monkey are blatantly bigoted terms and are an embarrassment to the forum. Also makes it a bit hard to take a thread seriously when that sort of people are the pricipals.

Where was all this concern when it was Trump or his kids or his wife being called everything in the book? Or, GWB getting the same treatment?

Go Trump!

"It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation. This is particularly hard if one has invested much time and energy on a project and thus has come to feel possessive about it. Although it is not easy to admit what a person once thought correct now appears to be wrong, one must discipline himself to face the facts objectively and make the necessary changes — regardless of the consequences to himself. The man in charge must personally set the example in this respect. He must be able, in effect, to "kill his own child" if necessary and must require his subordinates to do likewise."

Quotation of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover from "The Rickover Effect (1992) by Theodore Rockwell."