I am reading about Cognative Dissonance at the moment. From a psychological perspective.
What strikes me, and I cannot yet express it in simple terms, is that this is very relevant to the Trump election.
What it is saying clearly is that if your actions and your beliefs/ideas do not match, we tend to change our beliefs and ideas, rather than accept that our actions were wrong. And we do this without realising it or thinking about it.
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