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22 December 2004, 16:12

For instance?? Facts never get in the way of ideologues and idiots. Someone above mentioned "cognitive dissonance." That’s exactly the phenomenon here. But it applies to those who want to believe (a) that their candidate—Bush—won the election fairly in the face of (b) evidence to the contrary. How do they resolve this? Easy: Dismiss the evidence as "lies." Better yet is to cultivate their own ignorance of the evidence—which protects them from ever having to resolve incongruous beliefs.