"leftist" is good enough

"Cognitive dissonance" is not the solution to the problem of believing one idea and its opposite at the same time. It's the psychological DISCOMFORT you feel when you try to hold these contradictory ideas together in your head. Since the Democrat ideology is based on contradictions, lies and doublespeak reinforced by the media, the ideology would fall apart with a little reality-testing. So you have to do a lot of repressing to avoid confronting the truth, and engage in a lot of avoidant behavior, like staying away from alternative sources of information, i.e., doing independent research.

This is the psychology of the cult. Thinking independently might alienate you from your peers and lead to ostracism. You might wake up and realize that you've been living out a kind of Stockholm Syndrome, identifying with people who are insulting your intelligence and abusing you with their policies.

For example, unlimited immigration depriving you of the high-paying job you went to college to train yourself for, saddling you with crippling debt you can't repay without that job--in a vicious circle. Or: Teaching a grade-school white kid that he's racist because he's white, and, on top of THAT, toxically masculine if he's a white male. This is child abuse plain and simple. And the abuse will continue through college and beyond via the MSM and mainstream culture; if you happen to land a well-paying office job, "Diversity Counselors" who force you to attend "struggle sessions." The assault on your self-esteem as a white person can only be deflected by the quasi-forced-confession of "white privilege" and by scapegoating other white people who happen to be Conservative, or merely not racist as opposed to "anti-racist." To make a non-racist claim such as "all lives matter" is to be branded as a racist. Such is the logic of doublethink, typical of a cult. It could also be called the logic of the "double-bind," a situation so absurdly self-contradictory that it paralyzes you mentally and emotionally, as if to mock your helplessness. Female high school athletes feel powerless to complain that transgender males are allowed to steal their victories and deprive them of the confidence-boosting pride that goes with them; if they do complain, they are stigmatized as transphobes. A cult is rarely without such a sadistic component. (It's important to note that these examples of abusive ideology disproportionately affect young people. Why? The young are especially impressionable, and more likely than other age groups to be recruited by cults. Cf. the Revolutionary Guard and Pol Pot's 10-year-old murders.)

Today's mainstream culture is not a culture at all but a mass cult. And it is fundamentally malignant; its purpose is to enslave those at the bottom to those at the top. The members of the current "meanstream" cult (the Community of the Saints, aka the PC) are both the victims and perpetrators of its core abusiveness. Repression of this truth doesn't make it go away, it only shoves it down into the unconscious: but the truth will still nag at you with inklings of self-doubt. Unconsciously you can't help but perceive what's being done to you and resent being abused by the very people who claim to be your benefactors and demand your loyalty. But since you can't admit this to yourself, you end up living a lie and BECOMING a lie.

That's why scapegoats are so important in cults. They allow you to discharge the discomfort of clashing "cognitions" by projecting it onto Conservatives, even if this traps you in the insider/outsider, friends/enemies dichotomy that blunts your intellect and stunts you emotionally, encouraging simplistic thinking and irrational hatred. At this point the cult has thoroughly weaponized you. You are ready to pass on your own abuse, inflicting in the outsiders. The redirected aggression of AntiFa's physical clashes with Trump-supporters acts out these psychological clashes by turning them into armed assaults against a convenient scapegoat. "Going on the offensive" is a kind of defense-mechanism. Spewing hatred and engaging in violence are twisted forms of therapy.

Not cognitive dissonance, doublethink.

What a load of bull.

Young women will support anything that fuels their hatred of men. They'd vote for actual, literal Hitler over someone who promises to protect men's rights.

^ This exactly

So does Michelle. Unusual to put your name in your underwear at that age.

Strong family values. Strong emphasis on hard work. It's amazing what it does for prosperity.

That's not true because of institutional racism, climate racism, paycheck racism, breathing racism, white skin racism, and racist racism.