Is This Where Rove Got His Strategy?

When people criticize the Republican rank and file for “toeing the Line” (some say “towing” the line) We’re serious here. It’s utterly amazing what people will tolerate. Far too many people have entrusted the “experts” and “leaders” to fix everything and still look to these crooks and liars like they have the answers. Actually most of our problems can be directly traced to criminal activity from DC.

Cracked Magazine: Psychologists know you have to be careful when you go poking around the human mind because you’re never sure what you’ll find there. A number of psychological experiments over the years have yielded terrifying conclusions about the subjects.

Oh, we’re not talking about the occasional psychopath who turns up. No, we’re talking about you. The experiments speak for themselves:

Solomon Asch wanted to run a series of studies that would document the power of conformity, for the purpose of depressing everyone who would ever read the results.

Subjects were told that they would be taking part in a vision test, along with a handful of people. The participants were then shown pictures, and individually asked to answer very simple and obvious questions. The catch was that everybody else in the room other than the subject was in on it, and they were were told to give obviously wrong answers. So would the subject go against the crowd, even when the crowd was clearly and retardedly wrong?