A case study in cognitive dissonance and gaslighting...
There is a puzzling story in The Atlantic by Charlie Sykes this week – " How 'pro-life' lost all meaning. " It's quite a read if you are interested in exploring cognitive dissonance. Charlie Sykes is a right-wing pundit. He has worked for nearly a half century to overturn Roe. And apparently, he is shocked – SHOCKED – at what's going on in red states two years after the end of Roe. Here's Charlie's words about what happened in the Republican Party after the Dobbs ruling: Suddenly, Republicans were faced with a host of questions they never had to wrestle with before. Should abortion pills be banned? IVF? How should states handle miscarriages? (Earlier this month, the Supreme Court unanimously rejected a challenge to the use of the abortion and miscarriage-management drug mifepristone. But efforts continue to restrict the use of the drug, including a proposal from Project 2025, organized by the Heritage Foundation, to use the 19th-century Comstock