Political groupthink, distilled to 100% purity

[Inkblots]

I just want to preface this by saying the following interview segment is not a spoof. This actually happened yesterday on Australian national television:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFELLK8htKM

I can't help but think this is the most perfect example of the reflexive groupthink that afflicts the bulk of politicians from Washington to Canberra. That anyone would think that this sort of spineless weasel is preferable to a man of principle like Ron Paul beggars belief.

It's twits like this that voted through CISPA yesterday, PPACA in 2010, and TARP in 2008. The vast bulk of the business of government in this nation is conducted according to this spavined mentality. "Leadership told us to, after all!"

[Bern]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh78T--ZUxY

[tangent4ronpaul]

"You have to pass it in order to find out what's in it"...

:rolleyes:

[kuckfeynes]

Unfortunately that's how most humans think, not for themselves but through someone else. If one is lazy and adverse to independent thinking and critical analysis, and finds oneself in agreement with any given authority often enough, he will grow intellectually comfortable with it and begin to assume infallibility of that figure. Heck I even see it here sometimes, people defending their position because it's Ron Paul's position. I was that way once with Ayn Rand, then Ron Paul, then Rothbard, and a slew of liberal thinkers before them. It's just human nature, emotional impulse... I've caught myself in this frame of mind so many times over my life that only now am I really starting to get good at identifying it, and opening the critical eye back up.

Which just goes to show why this is truly a war of ideas...