On why conservatives win from a psychologically different perspective.

Moonbeam

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Naturally Trump won because he reached 270 electoral votes so we are really looking to figure out what's the attraction was or why there's insufficient repulsion to his candidacy. And of course in other threads we will look at policy, messaging, the economy etc. till we are blue in the face.

I think the following analysis of culture in general offers a perspective that provides an analytical framework that make a lot of sense to and which I me and which I want to share.


The article predicts factors that may work against interest in it so it may only be of interest to those who have an appetite for information as the subject matter is about inner conditions that work against us in that regard:

"An emotional education may require us to adopt two different starting points. For a start, how we are taught may matter inordinately, because we have ingrained tendencies to shut our ears to all the major truths about our deeper selves. Our settled impulse is to blame anyone who lays our blind spots and insufficiencies bare, unless our defenses have first been adroitly and seductively appeased. In the face of critically important insights, we get distracted, proud, or fidgety. We may prefer to do almost anything other than take in information that could save us."

Hope you can overcome such hurdles and consider it.
 

HomerJS

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I have a more simplistic answer.

Low information voters
Sound bite culture
Instant gratification culture
 
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Moonbeam

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I have a more simplistic answer.

Low information voters
Sound bite culture
Instant gratification culture
I posted in another thread to you on my take on symplistic answers.

Did you read the link. It doesn't sound like it frankly.

Judging by the views vs responses I'm guessing the same.

It's not that you are wrong but that the link suggests why we want low information what sound bite culture and instant gratification depend on, self fucking psychological ignorance.