NYPo: Redacted Russiagate docs show the feds are STILL lying about Trump and their putsch attemp

link

If you really want to resist the evidence, it's often possible to just drag your feet / dig in your heels. We all know how it's done. Not only do we see in others, we all do it ourselves sometimes. I don't like conclusion C. So I exaggerate the strength of the evidence against C. I minimize the evidence for C. I pick through the evidence for any small reason for doubting C. All I really have to do is keep from outright admitting that C is false. Eventually more objective reasoners will realize that arguing with me is futile. They realize C is basically proven. They move on. But I don't have to admit error. And I can assert not-C from time to time, as the spirit moves me. If I'm stubborn and dishonest enough, I can keep the dispute rhetorically (though not rationally) alive...maybe forever.

   The right did this with WMDs. Not forever, but until nobody cared anymore. At one point breathless unconfirmed reports of single buried bits of chemical ordnance were being trumpeted as proof that Saddam did, indeed, have WMDs--as if we had invaded because we suspected that there was a stray chlorine gas artillery shell forgotten somewhere in the Iraqi desert. But now...well, at this point they might as well just let the dispute fade away. And they have. They fought to a rhetorical standstill until losing didn't matter anymore. Had they admitted--or stopped denying--that there were no WMDs while the argument was still hot, they would have paid a significant price. But, to quote the philosopher, what difference, at this point, does it make?