Better Out Than In, I Suppose

An Update.
Note this line: “Detectives say the woman told them she was just trying to make a joke.”
Watch the video again and ponder the mother’s rationale. I’m not sure there’s a better metaphor from the start of the video to the finish of her excuse for the Leftist mindset.

It isn’t paranoia, it is histrionics,
Started to respond to this but couldn’t quite put in words, well without writing a book, what I was trying to say. Then I encountered this from Dilbert creator Scott Adams…

This brings me to the anti-Trump protests. The protesters look as though they are protesting Trump, but they are not. They are locked in an imaginary world and battling their own hallucinations of the future. Here’s the setup that triggered them.
1. They believe they are smart and well-informed.
2. Their good judgement told them Trump is OBVIOUSLY the next Hitler, or something similarly bad.
3. Half of the voters of the United States – including a lot of smart people – voted Trump into office anyway.
Those “facts” can’t be reconciled in the minds of the anti-Trumpers. Mentally, something has to give. That’s where cognitive dissonance comes in.
There are two ways for an anti-Trumper to interpret that reality. One option is to accept that if half the public doesn’t see Trump as a dangerous monster, perhaps he isn’t. But that would conflict with a person’s self-image as being smart and well-informed in the first place. When you violate a person’s self-image, it triggers cognitive dissonance to explain-away the discrepancy.
So how do you explain-away Trump’s election if you think you are smart and you think you are well-informed and you think Trump is OBVIOUSLY a monster?
You solve for that incongruity by hallucinating – literally – that Trump supporters KNOW Trump is a monster and they PREFER the monster. In this hallucination, the KKK is not a nutty fringe group but rather a symbol of how all Trump supporters must feel. (They don’t. Not even close.)
In a rational world it would be obvious that Trump supporters include lots of brilliant and well-informed people. That fact – as obvious as it would seem – is invisible to the folks who can’t even imagine a world in which their powers of perception could be so wrong. To reconcile their world, they have to imagine all Trump supporters as defective in some moral or cognitive way, or both.
As I often tell you, we all live in our own movies inside our heads. Humans did not evolve with the capability to understand their reality because it was not important to survival. Any illusion that keeps us alive long enough to procreate is good enough.

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/153080448451/the-cognitive-dissonance-cluster-bomb
This. This, this, this, and SOOOO much this. Especially #1.

Some things never change.
To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.
http://townhall.com/columnists/charleskrauthammer/2002/07/26/stupid_vs_evil

@ Nikw211 | November 13, 2016 at 11:01
Australian journalism lecturer Wendy Bacon tweeted during the Lindt cafe siege (and bear in mind two innocent people lost their lives later that day): “Clearing of cars in CBD gives you idea of how pleasant carless city might be (despite context).” I don’t need to say any more there.
I don’t know what it is with the Left and their desire that (other people) should not be allowed to drive cars (well actually I do), but I recall a listener texted the ABC Radio National afternoon show a while back with the wonderful notion that cars should be banned all together. Living in a semi-rural region where people routinely have to commute 50km to work every day (and then back), and where my family has to travel 220km just to visit friends & relatives in the state’s capital city, without any of the public transport infrastructure that larger cities enjoy, well, it just makes me want slap ignorant, elitist, inner city dwellers like that around their stupid faces.