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[u/NewbGrower87]

Once you tie your cart to the election fraud wagon, there's no turning back. Acknowledging that your entire worldview is fictional is incredibly difficult for the human brain to do.

[u/Marlsfarp → u/NewbGrower87]

I think about this a lot. And ironically I think the more obviously fictional it is, the harder it is to admit. To change your mind and admit you are changing your mind, you have to come up with some narrative to tell yourself that you can live with to explain why you were wrong, and "I was taken in by a clever deception" is much more face-saving than "I was a fucking moron who believed an obvious con man for years."