Ever felt torn between your values and your political identity? Some of you will twist yourselves into a 🥨 because you don’t wanna admit that you were wrong, instead you double down. That tension is called cognitive dissonance-the discomfort a person feels when their behavior does not align with their values or beliefs. It’s why someone might preach “freedom” while supporting censorship, or say that we need law and order in this country, yet watch elected officials break the law and destroy the constitution. Or, defend “justice” while ignoring corruption within their own party. Or what about all of the people that were so mad that kaepernick7 took a knee before a game to protest police brutality and said it was disrespectful to the troops and to police, but those same folks thought January 6 was a peaceful protest and storming the Capitol and harming police officers was patriotic! Ask yourself: Where am I ignoring uncomfortable truths for the sake of loyalty? It’s time you come o...