Surprise! Surprise!
One reason Obama voters are caught off-guard is because of our adversarial culture. It's not as if voters weren't warned about the consequences of Obamacare. But many voters prejudge a position by who said it. A Democrat will automatically tune out what a Republican or conservative pundit or libertarian or Tea Partier says. They don't listen to the argument. Anything someone on the "wrong side" says is discounted in advance.
That's why many Obama supporters suddenly find themselves blind-sided by the easily foreseeable consequences of Obamacare. Because the "wrong" people predicted this, they didn't pay any attention.
And, of course, this isn't confined to politics. The same mentality, often with the same sides, takes place in the debate over religion. You can ignore anything a Christian "fundamentalist" says before he opens his mouth.
There's a word for that: prejudice.
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