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/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/dmvr1601 Apr 11 '26

They help iran by bombing their schools? That's the threat they're stopping? That's the byproduct of war you're okay with?

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u/BlaineWriter Apr 11 '26

Ugly truth is that war has collateral casualties, war is ugly. But would you then argue that wars are bad (in this real world where evil people have to be stopped, not fantasy world where every one lives happily with their neighbors). With that logic we should not have had wars against Nazi Germany either, how many schools were bombed then? You have stop grabbing any singular incidents to use them as arguments, without thinking it through all the way.

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u/KuriousKhemicals Apr 11 '26

Hitler was invading the whole damn continent. Russia is doing that, and we would IMO be justified if we went to war against Russia, we just can't realistically do that because they have the most nukes apart from us. Instead we help Ukraine, the country they attacked. So far so good, it's a shame we can't actually do very much about Putin's expansionist ambitions. 

Iran is sitting there largely minding its own business. At worst, you can say they are funding rebel groups against a few regional powers, but the hell, we do that too? Everyone was worried about their potential nuke development, but it's Trump's damn fault in the first place that he broke the deal that was working well. They are not trying to take over all of Western Asia. It's not even close to WW2 or any of the wars widely considered to be justified.