On the Republican's fight with Cognitive Dissidence (Update)

Cognitive dissidence
Dissonance normally occurs when a person perceives a logical inconsistency among his or her cognitions. This happens when one idea implies the opposite of another. For example, a belief in animal rights could be interpreted as inconsistent with eating meat or wearing fur. Noticing the contradiction would lead to dissonance, which could be experienced as anxiety, guilt, shame, anger, embarrassment, stress, and other negative emotional states. When people's ideas are consistent with each other, they are in a state of harmony, or consonance. If cognitions are unrelated, they are categorized as irrelevant to each other and do not lead to dissonance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

In other words and in my opinion, Republicans refuse to face reality. They have set up battlefields in their minds like the notorious war room in the Pentagon with the sole objective of winning wars with reality. Reality is their nemesis, their foe, their mortal enemy. Reality has no place on their mental battlefields. The presence of reality makes them uncomfortable and irritable and has to be subdued at all cost. They feel the soundness of their mind demands its vanquish.

Once again and in my opinion, more and more Republicans are beginning to understand, as did the ones who voted for Pres. Obama in November, that perpetually confronting and picking fights with reality on the mind's battlefield produces mental demons that alienate them more and more from society; the more fights, the more the demons and the furtherance of the alienation.

I dedicate this short post to the illustrious Joan Walsh of Salone.com who wrote of Dick Cheney‘s speech last night “.. at Frank Gaffney's far-right Center for Security Policy.”

Dick Cheney's losing his old black magic
Mr. Secret Bunker calls Obama "afraid." Wingnuts clap, world yawns.
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/dick_cheney/index.html?story=/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/10/22/cheney

As always,
BB
P.S. I am mindful the late Sen. Ted Kennedy said, "You can not outlive reality".

(Update)
Meet the RightWing MadMen : They are all freaking out because Obama "Likes" Maddow, Jon Stewart....
by LaurenMonica
Excerpt:
First stop Boss Limbaugh, on FoxNews' war with the White Houte, Limbaugh came with a strange conclusion, the WH is attaking "Fox because the POTUS is obsessed with him". He said that "He is living rent free in Obama's head". A Big WTH moment, if you ask me ! Responding to Obama's interview with NBC Savanah Guthrie, Limbaugh said if "Fox News is Talk radio, MSNBC is porn, and CNN is child porn ". Talk about the twisted mind
Read more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/23/796041/-Meet-the-RightWing-MadMen-:-They-are-all-freaking-out-because-Obama-Likes-Maddow,-Jon-Stewart....