Some people don’t need social proof, they’re blind to reality and just con themselves. Here’s a brilliant example in today’s Boston Globe. Former Gov. Mike Dukakis teamed up with a Globe reporter to describe what a Dukakis presidency would have been like.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2008/08/03/president_duke/

I especially liked the UN resolutions that kept Saddam Hussein from invading Kuwait in 1991. An air war and a dozen UN resolutions in 2002 couldn’t get him to open up to weapons inspectors but President Mikey’s scowls would have.