Ahhhh... Terker, Twerker, Twerker... will you never learn?

I am going to leave the merging of Ayn Rand and Jesus to a later post - though even a child could reconcile these 2 apparently contradictory sources.

First I want to address this blatant case of the pot calling the kettle black. It is so outrageous I scarcely know where to start.

I suppose I should begin with your favorite go-to term when you want to sound smarter than you are - cognitive dissonance (which, I submit, you do not understand).

According to cognitive dissonance theory, there is a tendency for individuals to seek consistency among their cognitions (i.e., beliefs, opinions). When there is an inconsistency between attitudes or behaviors (dissonance), something must change to eliminate the dissonance. In the case of a discrepancy between attitudes and behavior, it is most likely that the attitude will change to accomodate the behavior.

Cognitive dissonance is a psychological phenomenon which refers to that discomfort felt at a discrepancy between what you already know or believe and new information or interpretation.

In YOUR case Twerker, you BELIEVE that conservatives are the source of all that is wrong, bad or evil in the world - and that liberals (actually leftists) are the source of all that is right (correct), good and pure in the world.

Now, you may recall a debate we had some time ago regarding hate speech on the left, which arose from the shooting Rep Giffords. Your contention was that hate speech on the right was far worse than that on the left. As your "proof" of this you presented a number of clips taken from a faux-news comedy show whose host showed EDITED excerpts of a SINGLE conservative political commentator - Glen Beck. That was the ONLY evidence you presented.

I, on the other hand, presented UNEDITED examples of hate speech on the left that made Glen Beck sound like a Girl Scout! Not only that, I presented the actual video and audio with transcripts from MULTIPLE lefists who were REAL news persons and political commentators - not comedians!

But when confronted with the truly hateful and vile speech of these leftists - something that was at a complete variance with your "beliefs, opinions" - what you believed about leftists was suddenly in a head-on crash with the actual reality - the new information - and you reacted PRECISELY in the manner of one experiencing cognitive dissonance.

Rather than confront and accept the truth - which was at odds with your own beliefs - you went through all manner of completely senseless and baseless contortions to dismiss that truth, that new reality - speculating about what some of those leftists meant or might be thinking rather than listening to what they were ACTUALLY saying. You manufactured, out of whole cloth, this whole new "reality" to protect your delicate sensibilities regarding leftists. And you went to ridiculous extremes to justify leftist behavior in order to maintain your worldview - right=bad, left=good.

This was the same cognitive dissonance on display when, despite overwhelming evidence, hard irrefutable proof offered to you from multiple sources, you continued to insist that you most certainly did not get a tax cut under the Bush tax cuts. Your deep hatred of Bush, your firm conviction that he only gave tax cuts to the "rich" because that's what "evil conservatives" do - look out for the "wealthy" and "privileged" - those "beliefs and opinions" came into violent contact with cold hard reality and you just could not see that new reality, and the "discomfort" you felt at that discrepancy was on full display for all to see.

So... you might want to bear this in mind when you are tempted to attach this label to others... pot!