Wow, this takes the cake about human self-centered delusion

Humans vast intelligence is eclipsed by one thing:

Our capacity to delude ourselves when it puts us at the center of attention or power

Even the most intelligent people included

WOW! I can’t believe the number of people supporting and cheering on Putin or criticizing our government at this time in order to support the anti-Biden train.

I figure one of two things is going on:

1. They are aware that the US has been naughty about various issues that aren’t clear. It appears perhaps we have gone back on our agreements with Gorbachev and/or Russia regarding not expanding NATO. Or perhaps going into Iraq or Sarajevo without broad international agreement and the full blessing of the UN. Or the US just being a bully and being hypocritical. Perhaps you could make an argument justifying Putin’s behavior in order to balance out the world.
2. They want to be “right” about voting for Trump and supporting him after the siege. This FAR eclipses any minor annoying facts like the possibility of a third world war, or the changing of geopolitics in a really bad direction and setting a really bad precedence and a weakening of the West/US position. It’s too hard to do #1 and much easier to twist the facts and thought process to bend reality into supporting you as somebody who knows everything and is “right” — i.e. doing this subconsciously resulting in one really believing…

I’m going to go out on a limb here and apply Occam’s Razor* and say that I strongly suspect that #2 is the correct explanation. I seriously doubt most people have analyzed #1 and can speak logically about it in an open discussion. (And the very idea of having any kind of debate in the media / social media is laughable).

This really cements the idea that many of us really have gone to the dark side. What would cause folks to do this, is a VERY complex issue, we’ll have to address for another time.

*All else being equal the simplest explanation tends to be the correct one