I found an article explaining Motivated Reasoning in The Atlantic and it seemed like a good fit for the Open Thread.
That being said, one of the core links inside the article (The one that links to the paper that it is using to draw some of it's conclusions) was broken. I've pasted the correct link below if you want to read the paper as well.
I liked the fact that the author didn't use cognitive bias as an excuse to give up on talking about politics altogether (which seems to be LWian consensus), but instead made demonstrable claims about politics.
EDIT: in response to the previous version of Michaelos' post, I said:
It makes me uncomfortable when LWers say things like:
"Politics is the Mindkiller" appears to be acknowledged as early as the second sentence.
It smacks of, "Oh, look at the unenlightened people finally catching on." Lesswrong didn't invent cognitive science, a...
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post, even in Discussion, it goes here.