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When we’re threatened we defend ourselves—and our systems. Before 9/11, for instance, President George W. Bush was sinking in the polls. But as soon as the planes hit the World Trade Center, the president’s approval ratings soared. So did support for Congress and the police. During Hurricane Katrina, America witnessed FEMA’s spectacular failure to rescue the hurricane’s victims. Yet many people blamed those victims for their fate rather than admitting the agency flunked and supporting ideas for fixing it. In times of crisis, say the authors, we want to believe the system works.
Originally posted by Hopechest
I'd say its in response to those that always attack it.
Usually there truth falls somewhere in the middle.
Originally posted by benrl
I suspect it's years of indoctrination at an early age combined with clever uses of people's own pyscological bias being manipulated.
Originally posted by extraterrestrialentity
I was wondering a couple days ago about why some people always defend the government no matter what.
If the government kills someone, they say it's the victims fault, if the government started a war, they say they had no choice, if the government is spending money on useless things, they'll say it's for a good cause, and so on.
I just kept wondering how could someone defend the government when it's clear the government has done something I wrong. Until I found this article:
When we’re threatened we defend ourselves—and our systems. Before 9/11, for instance, President George W. Bush was sinking in the polls. But as soon as the planes hit the World Trade Center, the president’s approval ratings soared. So did support for Congress and the police. During Hurricane Katrina, America witnessed FEMA’s spectacular failure to rescue the hurricane’s victims. Yet many people blamed those victims for their fate rather than admitting the agency flunked and supporting ideas for fixing it. In times of crisis, say the authors, we want to believe the system works.
www.psychologicalscience.org...edit on 7-5-2013 by extraterrestrialentity because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Hefficide
Probably for the same reasons that others can hear a click on their phone, or lose water pressure for a few minutes and come to the conclusion that every alphabet agency in the country is lurking around their homes and trying to poison/trick/trap/spy/torture/surveille them. People latch onto the beliefs that they wish to latch onto and then tend to descend into indoctrinated thought patterns.
People tend to want to gravitate toward absolutist all or nothing thinking when the truth most often is to be found somewhere in the middle.
The government is corrupt, but not absolutely so. There is good and bad to be found in it. In what ratio I cannot say - but this is the reality of the situation.
Do you want to know why some people always defend the government?