Thought piece here...what makes folks like moe appear so "nutty"?

[atlkvb]

Just discussing this with one of our younger sales associates on the staff at my Dealership. He's sort of "A"-political....leans a little Left but also has problems with the radical loons in the Democrat party. Not really a Republican, but still wants to get rich, own a home, and have a family. Hates Trump personally, but likes his policies.

So then we asked him, what makes the Democrat party appeal to so many young folks like him? Surprisingly he said he didn't know? He was being honest too! Got me to thinking, I came across this piece in "Reason" magazine not too long ago discussing this very issue. Why are folks, particularly on the Left, so easily manipulated to vote Democrat?

It's long, but very interesting. I've excerpted a couple of lines just to encourage you all to read it in its entirety and maybe gain a little more awareness into what makes our friend @moe tick?

Political Ignorance and Misinformation on the Left

excerpt:
In a democracy, those who govern are accountable to a mass public that overwhelmingly comprises people who don't think much about politics and policy and who really don't know much about it. That real-world citizens are not idealized deliberators is a really important aspect of how society functions, and it's important that everyone who cares about such things try to understand it….

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The thing that makes this sort of superficial analysis so seductive is that it's not exactly wrong. Most people really are very poorly informed about politics and policy. A lot of campaign messaging is pretty misleading. A lot of media coverage is sloppy and propagandistic.

Overall, social science research suggests that susceptibility to misinformation cuts across the political spectrum, and isn't necessarily much greater on one side of it than the other. The fundamental problem is that most voters have little incentive to seek out information about policy issues, or to objectively evaluate what they learn.


Again folks, it's a very interesting read and looks closely at a few issues like "climate change" and "racial profiling" revealing how both are reported and the perceptions that follow those misperceptions. It's balanced, and doesn't only pick on Leftists...but it does explain how many of them get duped into thinking the exact opposite of what they instinctively know to be true!

Amazing.

Give it a read, I promise it will open your eyes...and maybe even provide a little sympathy for @moe because I can easily see him in so much of what the authors revealed in their analysis.

 

[roadtrasheer]

Just discussing this with one of our younger sales associates on the staff at my Dealership. He's sort of "A"-political....leans a little Left but also has problems with the radical loons in the Democrat party. Not really a Republican, but still wants to get rich, own a home, and have a family. Hates Trump personally, but likes his policies.

So then we asked him, what makes the Democrat party appeal to so many young folks like him? Surprisingly he said he didn't know? He was being honest too! Got me to thinking, I came across this piece in "Reason" magazine not too long ago discussing this very issue. Why are folks, particularly on the Left, so easily manipulated to vote Democrat?

It's long, but very interesting. I've excerpted a couple of lines just to encourage you all to read it in its entirety and maybe gain a little more awareness into what makes our friend @moe tick?

Political Ignorance and Misinformation on the Left

excerpt:
In a democracy, those who govern are accountable to a mass public that overwhelmingly comprises people who don't think much about politics and policy and who really don't know much about it. That real-world citizens are not idealized deliberators is a really important aspect of how society functions, and it's important that everyone who cares about such things try to understand it….

more
The thing that makes this sort of superficial analysis so seductive is that it's not exactly wrong. Most people really are very poorly informed about politics and policy. A lot of campaign messaging is pretty misleading. A lot of media coverage is sloppy and propagandistic.

Overall, social science research suggests that susceptibility to misinformation cuts across the political spectrum, and isn't necessarily much greater on one side of it than the other. The fundamental problem is that most voters have little incentive to seek out information about policy issues, or to objectively evaluate what they learn.


Again folks, it's a very interesting read and looks closely at a few issues like "climate change" and "racial profiling" revealing how both are reported and the perceptions that follow those misperceptions. It's balanced, and doesn't only pick on Leftists...but it does explain how many of them get duped into thinking the exact opposite of what they instinctively know to be true!

Amazing.

Give it a read, I promise it will open your eyes...and maybe even provide a little sympathy for @moe because I can easily see him in so much of what the authors revealed in their analysis.

Gullible people always look goofy.

 

[WVUALLEN]

Just discussing this with one of our younger sales associates on the staff at my Dealership. He's sort of "A"-political....leans a little Left but also has problems with the radical loons in the Democrat party. Not really a Republican, but still wants to get rich, own a home, and have a family. Hates Trump personally, but likes his policies.

So then we asked him, what makes the Democrat party appeal to so many young folks like him? Surprisingly he said he didn't know? He was being honest too! Got me to thinking, I came across this piece in "Reason" magazine not too long ago discussing this very issue. Why are folks, particularly on the Left, so easily manipulated to vote Democrat?

It's long, but very interesting. I've excerpted a couple of lines just to encourage you all to read it in its entirety and maybe gain a little more awareness into what makes our friend @moe tick?

Political Ignorance and Misinformation on the Left

excerpt:
In a democracy, those who govern are accountable to a mass public that overwhelmingly comprises people who don't think much about politics and policy and who really don't know much about it. That real-world citizens are not idealized deliberators is a really important aspect of how society functions, and it's important that everyone who cares about such things try to understand it….

more
The thing that makes this sort of superficial analysis so seductive is that it's not exactly wrong. Most people really are very poorly informed about politics and policy. A lot of campaign messaging is pretty misleading. A lot of media coverage is sloppy and propagandistic.

Overall, social science research suggests that susceptibility to misinformation cuts across the political spectrum, and isn't necessarily much greater on one side of it than the other. The fundamental problem is that most voters have little incentive to seek out information about policy issues, or to objectively evaluate what they learn.


Again folks, it's a very interesting read and looks closely at a few issues like "climate change" and "racial profiling" revealing how both are reported and the perceptions that follow those misperceptions. It's balanced, and doesn't only pick on Leftists...but it does explain how many of them get duped into thinking the exact opposite of what they instinctively know to be true!

Amazing.

Give it a read, I promise it will open your eyes...and maybe even provide a little sympathy for @moe because I can easily see him in so much of what the authors revealed in their analysis.

But moe is 60 and lives in his parents basement. There's no hope for the mentally ill.

 

[roadtrasheer]

But moe is 60 and lives in his parents basement. There's nope hope for the mentally ill.

Is being a gullible a mental illness?

 

[30CAT]

Laziness. Giving their freedom and liberty for the left's promise of security. Too lazy to use their freedom and liberty to support themselves. They think government knows best and that we work for it.

Such a shame.

 

[atlkvb]

Laziness. Giving their freedom and liberty for the left's promise of security. Too lazy to use their freedom and liberty to support themselves. They think government knows best and that we work for it.

Such a shame.

The piece simply suggests you're better off going beyond that "dependency" mentality of media "spin" and taking the time to think independently & actually study the issues.

That's what 'ol @moe 's problem is IMO. He just accepts whatever the media narrative government apparatchiks in the Democrat party have cooked up, doesn't bother to investigate their claims further...spews his big government propaganda programming, then gets shot down by the facts.

Never phases him, he persists in his government dependent ignorance, yet as a grown *** man with access to all of the alternative information available, there is simply no excuse for that type of intellectual laziness.

 

[atlkvb]

But moe is 60 and lives in his parents basement. There's nope hope for the mentally ill.

He and many like him on the Left are comfortable in their perpetual State of "victimhood" because it excuses them from taking greater personal responsibility for their own lives. They want to be led around by the nose and spoon fed, because then they'll always have something to ***** about when it comes to whatever lack of satisfaction or happiness they find in their lives.