> I don't know if you've noticed this or not, but people really hate to be wrong.

That's right, but then they shouldn't support decisions politicians make that are wrong. They should oppose them from the start, then they would save themselves from having egg on their face later. They can still support the politician they want, but support them for their good causes, not the bad ones. How can they be wrong in that case? If they accuse the politician they support of making a bad decision, that doesn't make the person wrong, it makes the politician wrong and the person more right, if anything.

> Combine that with the almost infinite capacity for humans to rationalize their
> decisions (good or bad), and you'll get people sticking to their most blinkered
> decisions, even if they lead to oblivion.

Yeah, but then they're still wrong, they're just not admitting it... I guess the difference doesn't matter to them? How shallow. Everyone knows the emperor has no clothes.