This is a very depressing read about how politics actually works, which is basically that voters just think what they want to think and vote independently of facts.
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Sam Stein
“You should never do a press conference on anything you’re trying to pass,” he added. “Just do press conferences on things that are cool. It’s like [New York City Mayor] Eric Adams’s administration. But just don’t do crimes.”
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I think humans have to function mostly on instinct to survive. Doing reasoning BEFORE making a decision is a very recent (and exhausting) evolution.