Cognitive Dissonance and Political Attitudes Now that Trump is President (Transcript)

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In previous shows, I have mentioned the term cognitive dissonance and that I had done my college thesis on just that.

For years, I accurately predicted who was going to become president and why. The theory goes like this: In cognitive dissonance, you have people who cannot find a balance in their life. This is why you see the nun become the prostitute and the prostitute becomes the nun, yet neither of them will become the married woman.

 So, the pendulum swings from left to right, but it never stops in the middle.

That is the premise of cognitive dissonance when it comes to people however, when it comes to nations which was the specific focus of my thesis, was that nations are like people never finding true harmonic balance to their lives or to the nation. Nations will go from a liberal government to a then radical right government to a radical liberal government…very rarely ever finding a balance.

The 2024 election was a cognitive dissonance election if there ever was one. This was so because the American people were disgusted with the radicalization of the American government under the Joe Biden regime. This was where the only things that mattered to America, according to these liberal Democrats, was what was best for transsexuals and for queers, and to put it plainly, for anything that was not normal!  Not only was this the focus in America but we helped spread this depravity around the world and had a very extreme agenda on many fronts.

People were justifiably horrified. 

As a result, the American people wanted to vote in a very different president and administration. One that was going to stop the illegal immigration…one that was going to stop the Chinese threat…one that was going to stop all of the cultural warfare on the American public that we have witnessed these last four years.

Because of this, I was pretty positive on who would win and if you have been listening to these broadcasts, you know for a long time that I was really predicting that Trump was going to win in a pretty big landslide. Well, in all honesty, he didn’t win in the biggest landslide that I thought he should have considered the situation this country was in. 

Even with that being said, I want to change direction now to the 2028 election and the role of cognitive dissonance should Trump end up going too far to the extreme where the American people again feel uncomfortable. Should the American people vote in a way that would bring us back to where we have just come from that would be very bad for this country. I will even say that it might even be worse than anything President Trump could ever do. 

This is just a 7 minute and 11 second short show and I will probably spend some more time in the near future on the subject…I have just been a little bit under the weather as you can tell from the sound of my voice…I have had a little bit of a cold. I was listening to the Trump interview with Brett Baier on Fox News and I have to be honest, he left me wondering where he is going in these next four years.  He seems to be all over the place and I mean all over the place in not a very good way.

For example, he says that we’re going to be able to pay for all of his budget cuts and all the cuts out of tariffs alone. Simply put, I do not think he understands what a trade war really is and what a trade war entails. I think Trump often starts talking about things when he does not have all the facts. That is what gives a lot of ammunition to his enemies because they understand just that. Believe you me, the Democrats do know they’re enemies…just like the devil knows his.

Let me give you some facts about a trade war with Canada. 70 to 75 percent of all of our uranium comes from Canada. The oil that Canada produces is a very heavy crude oil unlike that in the rest of the world. Maybe what you didn’t know, and I didn’t know until over this weekend, 75 percent of all American refineries can only refine Canadian oil into gasoline so if they don’t have Canadian oil, they cannot be retrofitted to burn Texas-like crude or North Atlantic oil or even Saudi Arabian oil.  I don’t think Trump knows this. So, if we were to have a boycott, if Canada goes into a trade war with us and we decide that we can’t get their oil or they decide they’re not going to sell us their oil…maybe they’re going to sell it to China instead…our gasoline would be in such short supply. We would have long lines like we did in 1974 and 1979! We would again have the rationing of gas and you would then have an election result in 28 that would absolutely put the Democrats back in control of everything. If that were so, the United States of America would go down the tubes.

This administration has to succeed for us little guys and little girls out there to succeed in life. America needs a sane Trump and not an arrogant Trump. We are seeing here in some of these rants of his lately is an unhinged Trump in my estimation…and this may be a part of a strategy…I hope it is, but the strategy is backfiring. You have the average Canadian that was so pro-Trump before the election and yet they feel betrayed. They feel that they’re not the enemy of America as Trump has made them out to be. They thought China was the enemy. They thought Mexico was the enemy. They did not expect this idea that they are going to become the 51st state.

Guess what? 

They don’t want to become the 51st state and neither should we want them to be the 51st state. 

The idea is just nonsense and if this is just a bargaining tool, he may have just turned off every Canadian that used to like the guy. 

The man needs to get someone around him that’s going to tell him what the plain truth is and not what he wants to hear because God hates arrogance…and arrogance leads to a downfall. 

We do not need to resurrect the 2020 downfall of Trump all over again…Americas lower and middle class cannot go through another four years of total Democrat rule.

In summary, my advice is that somebody needs to start educating Trump that some of what he is seeming to believe is really absolute nonsense. I’m sorry…you can send all your letters to theplaintruthtoday@ AOL.com and complain about how I turned on Trump…but I am really trying to save the Trump presidency…I am not trying to destroy it. 

This is Bob Barney for The Plain Truth Today saying thank you for listening. I do appreciate you. You have a great day. And until tomorrow, bye-bye.