Trump supporters in Michigan are unmoved by his criminal charges, financial penalties
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Former President Donald Trump told a crowd in Michigan on Saturday night that he was \

If you were to conduct a “vox pop” poll anywhere, the question of the day being, Would you elect a person who…

…I’d like to believe that the average American from New York to California, even those misguided fools citizens of the Fair State of Ohio, would answer no to any of the above. Those are not exactly qualities one looks for in their elected representatives. What if the question was, Would you elect a person who has done all of the above?

How do you explain this, then? The Detroit News: Trump supporters in Michigan are unmoved by his criminal charges, financial penalties

Cognitive dissonance

In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is the perception of contradictory information and the mental toll of it. Relevant items of information include a person’s actions, feelings, ideas, beliefs, values, and things in the environment. Cognitive dissonance is typically experienced as psychological stress when persons participate in an action that goes against one or more of those things. According to this theory, when an action or idea is psychologically inconsistent with the other, people do all in their power to change either so that they become consistent. The discomfort is triggered by the person’s belief clashing with new information perceived, wherein the individual tries to find a way to resolve the contradiction to reduce their discomfort.

Compartmentalization

Compartmentalization is a form of psychological defense mechanism in which thoughts and feelings that seem to conflict are kept separated or isolated from each other in the mind. Those with post traumatic stress disorder may use compartmentalization to separate positive and negative self aspects. It may be a form of mild dissociation; example scenarios that suggest compartmentalization include acting in an isolated moment in a way that logically defies one’s own moral code, or dividing one’s unpleasant work duties from one’s desires to relax. Its purpose is to avoid cognitive dissonance, or the mental discomfort and anxiety caused by a person having conflicting values, cognitions, emotions, beliefs, etc. within themselves.

Compartmentalization allows these conflicting ideas to co-exist by inhibiting direct or explicit acknowledgement and interaction between separate compartmentalized self-states.

Alt. link: https://archive.is/rdE15

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