It&#x27;s odd that you went straight for &quot;nefarious&quot;. I didn&#x27;t actually think that at all. I assumed cognitive dissonance, actually. Mostly because <i>everyone</i> experiences it, myself included.<p>I think I was mostly vindicated. We tend to assign more importance to events that are both recent and geographically close to ourselves. The events in Ferguson or the shooting at the clinic in Colorado probably had more of an affect on the collective American psyche.