Don’t block it out

In an earlier letter, I wrote about Mr Debry, Dyas, and Brewer saying that President Joe Biden is the most corrupt President in U.S. History. Ms. Watson stated that Biden was “incompetent.”

During the 2016 campaign trail while running for president, Mr. Trump stated that Hillary Clinton should be locked up due to giving “…Russia 20 percent of American uranium…” www. cnn.com, Jan 2020. After two years of investigation, the Trump Justice Department closed the case without finding anything.

Last month, a federal judge ruled that Trump ‘more likely than not’ attempted to illegally obstruct Congress as part of a criminal conspiracy when he tried to subvert the 2020 election on Jan 6, 2021” https://www.politico.com, Mar 2022.

Additionally, the New York Attorney General alleges that over the last decade, Trump overinflated his assets to get loans and under-inflated his assets to use tax deductions to reduce his tax liability.

When Trump’s misdeeds are ignored, it’s called “willful ignorance”. This means “the person is aware of the facts and chooses to intentionally disregard them.” www.pyschologytoday.com, Oct 2018.

Why people ignore facts: “When confronted with facts we disagree with, we often do not change our perceptions. Past research suggested the possibility that fact-checking could lead to a “backfire effect,” causing people to double down and become even more stubborn in their beliefs.”

Bad news: “Blocking out information we disagree with—through creating social media echo chambers, reading partisan news, or only surrounding ourselves with friends who agree with us—can also lead to our opinions becoming more extreme.”

As an accountant, I do not want to block out information. There is a possibility that I might be wrong. I would have to be arrogant to only listen and agree with my views without giving the chance to listen to others. Vincent White

Lancaster