Keith Payne
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The most generous they could give the other side is to say, well, if they knew what I knew, they would think like I would think. The notion that you could all know the same thing and have a different opinions beyond comprehension.
Yeah, that's what we were going to get into. And you say the fundamental source of our division is our need to flexibly rationalize ideas in order to see ourselves as good people. That is so profound. Will you give the example? Well, let's get into psychological immune system. Define that for us.
Yeah, that's what we were going to get into. And you say the fundamental source of our division is our need to flexibly rationalize ideas in order to see ourselves as good people. That is so profound. Will you give the example? Well, let's get into psychological immune system. Define that for us.
Yeah, that's what we were going to get into. And you say the fundamental source of our division is our need to flexibly rationalize ideas in order to see ourselves as good people. That is so profound. Will you give the example? Well, let's get into psychological immune system. Define that for us.
And can I just add what I love about the way it's framed in this is it's not even about being great or being a genius. It's just about being good. Everyone has a pretty baseline desire to believe that they are good. That's kind of sweet. It's not even that ostentatious.
And can I just add what I love about the way it's framed in this is it's not even about being great or being a genius. It's just about being good. Everyone has a pretty baseline desire to believe that they are good. That's kind of sweet. It's not even that ostentatious.
And can I just add what I love about the way it's framed in this is it's not even about being great or being a genius. It's just about being good. Everyone has a pretty baseline desire to believe that they are good. That's kind of sweet. It's not even that ostentatious.
Tell us what happened when you heard the Tara Reade allegations against Joe Biden.
Tell us what happened when you heard the Tara Reade allegations against Joe Biden.
Tell us what happened when you heard the Tara Reade allegations against Joe Biden.
That's right.
That's right.
That's right.
A thousand percent. And it's coming so quickly as you describe it in the book. Like you're in the kitchen making coffee. You hear that. You go through that whole, I know I'm good and I'm going to vote for this person.
A thousand percent. And it's coming so quickly as you describe it in the book. Like you're in the kitchen making coffee. You hear that. You go through that whole, I know I'm good and I'm going to vote for this person.
A thousand percent. And it's coming so quickly as you describe it in the book. Like you're in the kitchen making coffee. You hear that. You go through that whole, I know I'm good and I'm going to vote for this person.
So how do I take this very inconvenient piece of information and reduce it in a way that I can hold on to this notion I'm still good and still going to vote for someone that may or may not have done this?
So how do I take this very inconvenient piece of information and reduce it in a way that I can hold on to this notion I'm still good and still going to vote for someone that may or may not have done this?
So how do I take this very inconvenient piece of information and reduce it in a way that I can hold on to this notion I'm still good and still going to vote for someone that may or may not have done this?
see them doing it and we notice it's incredibly frustrating but what we don't realize is that we're probably doing the same thing i reflect back on the monica lewinsky scandal and at the time i remember and my family was very left my mother and i were like someone's sexual life has nothing to do with them running the country this is such a witch hunt it has nothing to do with the job we ask this person to do we don't care what he's doing sexually of course if it was our opponent