Right wing comes with age and worldly experience.
It will happen to you all one day!
Funny that, all those i know who are aging and actually gaining experience are moving left.
Those who are aging and re-learning the same shit year after year are moving right.
FWIW, my mums best mate started sending links to GBNew clips and various other hate groups on FB (Britain first and the like). My mums only response is to a) report the article as hate speech and b) ask her mate for independent sources to prove the accuracy of the article.
They don't talk anymore.
Economics provide a second and rather different aspect to politics; vs social aspect of politics.
There’s also a whole load of nuance
Bears repeating, a number of times.
Right wing comes with age and worldly experience.
It will happen to you all one day
This is the "there are no atheists in foxholes" argument, isn't it. It is, of course, abject nonsense. But it is disrespectful and frankly dangerous nonsense because it carries a subtle subtext saying that you can't possibly not agree with me, not really.
The only way I'm going to find god or turn into a racist when on my deathbed is if it comes with a side order of senile dementia.
Lazy people lack critical thinking, their political allegiances don’t dictate their ability to think.
This may be true, but the last few years have consistently demonstrated a fairly strong correlation.
My mums only response is to a) report the article as hate speech and b) ask her mate for independent sources to prove the accuracy of the article.
Could I be adopted please?
This may be true, but the last few years have consistently demonstrated a fairly strong correlation.
Yeah but correlation does not prove causation
There’s also a whole load of nuance
There was a very interesting study which showed that voters with a particular focus on a policy (policing, immigration, education whatever ) were more likely to assume that their party of choice aligns with their own views on that policy, regardless of whether the party actually does or not. It's also true of voters that the satisfaction of performance of their chosen party increases if they enact policies that they agree with regardless whether those policies are left or right wing.
So left wing voters with strong view on say; severe punishments for crime like harsher or longer sentences (generally a right wing policy) are happier with left wing governments that enact them.
The ‘being happy’ is the issue though. Being happy isnt really all that thrilling. What sells is disgust. People are really thrilled by disgust and thats what a lot of the press pedal – disgust.
Probably true. I feel sad for the people that's true of though. It's where I think other cultures seem to have a better concept of how to mange their mind/ego/inner voices (not sure of the right term there) than we do generally. We don't need to be thrilled by disgust and emotive content like that do we, it's just filling a void left by a lack of something else. Maybe when I said 'happy' I should have said content or an internal ease of sorts. The mindset where the divisive stuff the algorithms prompt is ineffective or you have a good barrier for it. I'm not saying it doesn't effect me at all personally but it doesn't draw me in (too much.. ha), I think an awareness of how 'we are not our thoughts' and how we can try to manage what our mind produces is to thank for that. Or, 'pick your battles', don't try to engage on everything that seems worth fighting for?
Summed up by something along the lines of 'let go of your ego'.
Best of luck getting the children of the land to take any notice...
I think @Jameso is right.
I feel a lot more contented since i stopped using Twitter and the like, and tend to just skim the news occasionally,i find that Twitter is just a sounding board of people you select to follow and who mirror your opinions, and found that after Brexit i found myself quite down reading the news in full.
I think that the current news model seems to be always create a "them and us" attitude, you can't just be a moderate anymore, it has be woke vs right, cyclists vs drivers etc, when 99% of the time, the truth lies in the middle.Even local news websites seem to be the worst, all clickbait and no content.
Stumpyjon
the right wing policies may be "well thought out" but for anyone to vote for them does show a lack of critical thinking as 1) the tory party only exist to concentrate power and wealth in the hands of the powerful and wealthy and
2) any analysis of their policies makes this obvious
The tories rely on appealing to base instincts of people not on those folk who can actually think what the consequences of their polices are
tory policy always makes life worse for the majority of the population, Only folk who lack the ability ie critical thinking would support them unless they are in the top few %
See brexit for example where a right wing group persuaded so many folk to vote for something that would damage them greatly
Only folk who lack the ability ie critical thinking would support them unless they are in the few %
I don't fully disagree with you, but also some people are either more trusting than they should be or see a politician / official in a suit and give what they say more credibility. People are being sold to and conned and I can't blame them all for that. 50% of the population are below average intelligence so there's a large base for them to exploit. And I know people much smarter than me who voted leave on trust in what they were told. We'd hope the tories have a limited run at this before they're seen for what they are but then the same kind of thing will come from someone else. I remember thinking Labour were untrustworthy too at one point, WMDs etc.
Education level is a good indication of how folk will vote
The highest level of education someone has achieved remains an important dividing line in how people vote. Labour did much better than the Conservatives amongst those who have a degree or higher, by 43% to 29%.
The Liberal Democrats also performed very well amongst this group with 17% of the vote share.
Assuming the right wing are mindless idiots is dangerous.
The puppet masters are smart, those who stand to make (huge) fortunes, also.
The rest of them, politicians, fans, voters, not so much.
Many of them are also socio and psychopaths.
