[jbooth]

Most people don't want the truth, they just want something that feels good to repeat to themselves.

"It's the American's fault!", "It's the Arabs' fault!", "It's the neocon's fault", "Drill baby drill", "Keep the government away from my medicare"...

[caffeine]

Indeed .. most people (see roback's dead comment below) have no clue what their mantras even mean.

[aero142]

That is a nice list of things you don't like.

[jbooth]

Actually a bunch of them contradict each other, so it's almost impossible for me to dislike or like all of them.