The right wing gets it, they offer a group to fit in, somewhere to belong to. Facts won't change them, emotions will. A pair of weeks ago I said in another post: antivaxxers won't change due to a data table, they'll change due a kid dying. One died in Texas and they are vaccinating their kids.
I’m told by people that they have always been “Republican” so they stay loyal. AKA my 91 year old mom. Also surrounded by those that easily proclaim that they are “Conservative”. Most of these in the Catholic faith. I doubt these people changed their views even with marginalized relatives.
If you want to understand politics in an entirely new way, read “Don’t Think of An Elephant.” Many things will stop being a mystery. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
I read it in 2004, at the beginning of my career in politics (and at the command of Jerry Brown), and it pretty much determined the course of my life from then on.
"more focused on motherhood than politics," like "I'm not interested in politics," translates to:
"I am privileged enough to not be hurt by the things political bad actors do, and bigoted enough to not have any friends or family who will be hurt by them."
“Most people in Baldwin like President Donald Trump; more than 62 percent in Lake County, which includes the town, voted for him in November and in 2020. But people don’t talk about it. “
Are we sure they don’t talk about it? How was that determined?
So much of voting is fundamentally about who we believe we are, though that is also an ever-influenced definition as well. In a country where so many of us are glued to social media, and deifying influencers, and composing our “friends group” with online personas, we are malleable as never before.
Yes, is she is exposing herself to the Republican propaganda channels. Know any MAGA people? They are kept in constant fear, anger and delusion with a constant stream of disinformation. That shit *works*
My conscious thoughts spend time wondering how much longer the mainstream will ignore the data. It’s in everyone’s interest to recognize we need a conversation informed by cognitive science and human emotion.
As in people are selfish and do not think about others. I vote for this woman even though I don’t know her. I pay taxes to support her even though I don’t benefit from everything the government does. We live in a society and too many people vote like they live in the woods by themselves.
I turned 68 today. My kids were brought up to understand that(1) they stand on shoulders of those who came before them, (2) we must always be for our fellow humans even if our ancestors were treated badly, (3) your vote is your voice. My kids are empathetic people. Some of their friends are not.
it’s so good. not entirely my politics these days (what is from 2004), but the underlying linguistic and rhetorical principles are stuff I still use every day
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But I think that’s probably quite reductive and her cultural/political environment is almost certainly a part of the equation.
"I am privileged enough to not be hurt by the things political bad actors do, and bigoted enough to not have any friends or family who will be hurt by them."
“Most people in Baldwin like President Donald Trump; more than 62 percent in Lake County, which includes the town, voted for him in November and in 2020. But people don’t talk about it. “
Are we sure they don’t talk about it? How was that determined?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/she-hoped-trump-s-victory-would-change-her-life-but-not-like-this/ar-AA1zTXAI