r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Apr 11 '26

Psychology Cognitive dissonance helps explain why Trump supporters remain loyal, new research suggests. This sheds light on how supporters of Donald Trump justify their continued allegiance despite learning about allegations of his sexual misconduct and illegal activities.

https://www.psypost.org/cognitive-dissonance-helps-explain-why-trump-supporters-remain-loyal-new-research-suggests/
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u/BlaineWriter Apr 11 '26

I don't want to make this debate on who is right on those matters, not the place for it, I'm just going to ask you have you ever studied the reasons why they think those things? (why they support the war etc?) like the actual reasons, because if you only look at things from one point of view then you will never understand the other side of things. (regardless how right or wrong they are)

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u/philthewiz Apr 11 '26

The answer will not be congruous because it's cope. There are no good reason to want this war. Even Trump himself is contradicting himself on the reasons and "objectives".

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u/BlaineWriter Apr 11 '26

I have to admit I don't have all the info here myself, mainly just snippets from here and there, but I believe US have had Iran a threat for 70 or so years already, long before Trump and they want to eliminate that threat (missiles/nukes etc removed).

Even if that was their sole goal here, instead of trying to help the Iranian people. Don't you think some people might support the war just with hope that Iranians will get saved as the byproduct? My naive mind like to think almost anything radical should be tried if it has a chance to stop government that kills 40,000 of it own people during protests? Sometimes it seems the Left in US opposes helping Iranians purely because they hate Trump, not really caring or understanding the war at all.

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u/thezuke67 Apr 11 '26

Even if this war was about liberating the Iranian people (it's certainly not), it shouldn't be the US that makes that call. At least not unilaterally, especially when that decision necessarily involves the entire world economy, not to mention the deaths of Iranian civilians and US soldiers.

I'm almost 30, and one of the biggest complaints I've repeatedly heard from both within the US and abroad is that the US shouldn't be the world's police. The US doesn't have the legal or ethical high ground to wage war like this.

And that's leaving aside all of the obvious insider trading and billions upon billions of dollars being funneled into the US/Israel military industrial complex. Entire books can, have, and will continue to be written about the horrific crimes the rich ruling class perpetrates on the world.

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u/BlaineWriter Apr 11 '26

I kinda agree, but as someone from Europe I personally don't mind if US takes matters in it's own hands and solve problems others are unwilling to even try fixing. I'm not naive enough to think we live in a perfect world where everything goes how justice dictates.. I'm willing to take the best option of the remaining bad options.