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The act of committing to a candidate makes you at that point subjective. Ppl would rather stick with their (perhaps bad) decision then admit they got it wrong.
by chiefalchemist 2y ago
The act of committing to a candidate makes you at that point subjective. Ppl would rather stick with their (perhaps bad) decision then admit they got it wrong.
When so much emphasis is put on Federal elections, this bias contributes to the divisiveness.
- talldayo 2y agoI agree, and I think Aristotle would too. But inherently sticking with a bad or mis-guided belief is a human experience that has always existed, not a new political phenomenon. The bias is just how people behave. There is a tried-and-true framework for undermining those biases and even dialectic processes by which one can be proven logically superior to the other. We watch debates, read op-eds and encourage discussions of policy so that these entrenched beliefs are challenged - a free country has no obligation to brainwash it's citizens, even for a good cause.