This fascinating study would explain why people “vote against their own economic interests”.
One thing I keep hearing is that ppl who voted R in this (and other recent) US election(s) will come to regret it when their SS, medicare, other state assistance goes away.
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One thing I keep hearing is that ppl who voted R in this (and other recent) US election(s) will come to regret it when their SS, medicare, other state assistance goes away.
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Catherine E. de Vries
New paper published @ajpseditor.bsky.social
Showing that reduced access to public services fuelled far right support in 🇮🇹
Existing work on far right highlights globalization & migration grievances, what about people’s experiences with the state?
We use 🇮🇹 reform to find out
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Showing that reduced access to public services fuelled far right support in 🇮🇹
Existing work on far right highlights globalization & migration grievances, what about people’s experiences with the state?
We use 🇮🇹 reform to find out
shorturl.at/zQ8bJ
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Instead you're voting against the interests of moral failures.
“the Democratic Party needs to do real politics and persuasion”
(also “popularism” won’t work without politics”)
there are some D governors who seem to get it, but the congressional leadership is loathe to actually engage in politics and persuasion
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I infer that this works best in societies with a lot of potential scapegoat groups like immigrants or ethnic minorities
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Whereas left parties tend to appeal mostly to rights and interests that they *assume* are attractive once you are aware of them.
https://www.dyingofwhiteness.com/
God help them.
The world is changing, becoming more diverse whether they like it or not. Those who refuse to adapt do so at their peril.
like % shift to right wing party vs gov't support, by township
Until they do that, social scientists, IMO, are not exoteric but esoteric
in the US, whiteness has been the #1 most-protected “economic interest” since the 1680’s (Bacon’s Rebellion Laws)👇🏼
so it’s no wonder white status is pretty much undefeated at the ballot box👇🏼
https://www.instagram.com/isabelwilkerson/p/DB1rjF9yylr/?img_index=1
I suppose I’d vote to burn the country to the ground if I felt like a loser with zero to little chance of getting that sweet loving. Again, I apologize for the crassness.
https://youtu.be/h9h0Yy2QdmM?si=JGXuS-fbmdU1Tj05
More accurately, they perceive they pay more in taxes than other countries that actually have higher individual tax burden, bec so much of US taxes go to things that don’t appear to directly improve individual lives.
WRT b, some people are jerks who want the government to be cruel to vulnerable people, and they want a leader who will encourage them to be jerks
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Stupidity, the eternal human pandemic! And how to overcome it. https://medium.com/the-intersubjectivist/stupidity-the-eternal-human-pandemic-and-how-to-overcome-it-0e6f9ed24e93
https://academic.oup.com/sf/article-abstract/99/3/979/5830795
(This study does not help in my quest for hope.)
* if they don't cost us anything, if they do, fuck em.
Lyndon B. Johnson