I get that but can't for the life of me understand how what you think are rational people get so sucked in. And I get the concept of cognative dissonance too. I mean..if it all werent so blatently overboard I could see it. But at the level it is now? Where you are basically an evil demon if you dont agree with a Liberal's point of view? And they can't see the ludrcousy?
I actually think that every person who believes this shit is doing so as a way to avoid facing their own personal flaws/failures. By focusing on and labeling others' so-called failures of empathy..they can avoid attending to their own life. Like a way to avoid dealing with what they know deep down 'they' should be dealing with. It's much easier to point the finger.