CalicoJack

Author: CalicoJack

1115 Posts

Why does the media bothsides the antidemocratic threat when it is so clear that Republicans pose the entirety of the threat?

Social Psychology

Election 2024: The Asymmetrical Threat From the Republican Party and Leftist Activist Mavericks

27 January 2024 — 28 Comments

How does affective polarization explain the widespread support for Trump?

Cognitive Psychology

Affective Polarization is Driving Trump Support

24 January 2024 — 9 Comments

What explains the difference in polling on social issues and the way people vote?

Political Psychology

The Great Civics Lesson: The Reason Polls Show Agreement on Social Issues but Office Holders Don’t

20 January 2024 — 22 Comments

How do dehumanizing metaphors hack the brains of listeners and spread hate and divisiveness?

Social Psychology

The Dehumanizing Metaphor: The One Weird Trick that Autocrats Use to Hardwire Hate and Division into Their Followers

4 January 2024 — 29 Comments

How does status quo bias affect the election between Biden, Trump, a third party candidate, and not voting?

Cognitive Psychology

Election 2024: Understanding the Role of Status Quo Bias

26 December 2023 — 17 Comments

What are the likely outcomes of our electoral choices in 2024?

Meme

Meme: Save Democracy in 2024, Vote Democrat

25 December 2023 — 13 Comments

Does your Festivus Miracle beat the rescue of a man from an 18-inch hole on a California beach?

ReBlogged

A Festivus Miracle! Man Rescued from 18-inch Hole!

24 December 2023 — 7 Comments

Culture

Election 2024: The Undermining of our Democratic Culture by the Republican Party and Conservative Media

20 December 2023 — 37 Comments

Are we about to do it again? Are idealistic youth voters about to hand Trump a victory?

Politics

Hey Voters! Remember Pre- and Post-Dobbs America? Want More of That?

19 December 2023 — 8 Comments

Festivus

Your Festivus 2023 Cards are HERE!

18 December 2023 — 8 Comments

Can we punch Nazis with votes and truth to stop them from destroying our democracy?

Behavior Economics

Election 2024: The Always Punch a Nazi Election with Votes According to Behavioral Economics

7 December 2023 — 11 Comments

How does the Republican Party threaten our democracy in all branches and levels of government?

Politics

The Threat to Our Democracy isn’t Just Trump, it is the Republican Party

5 December 2023 — 6 Comments

What is the appropriate send off for Henry Kissinger? Is it Monty Python's Henry Kissinger song?

Politics

Henry Kissinger: The Doctor of Our Nightmares

2 December 2023 — 7 Comments

Miscellaneous

Bisy. Backson.

19 November 2023 — 1 Comment

What is the best way to handle annoying relatives at Thanksgiving? Telling them to STFU.

Miscellaneous

Handling Annoying Relatives at Thanksgiving

19 November 2023 — 3 Comments

What should I say to my House representative when I call demanding a clean CR to keep the government funded and open?

Cognitive Psychology

Call Your MoC About The Futility of the Freedumb Cockups Budget Fight or Y’all Lost, Now Pass the Damn Clean CR

11 November 2023 — 5 Comments

How does the Anchoring Effect explain Trump's high and Biden's low polling numbers? What is anchoring our perceptions of Election 2024?

Cognitive Psychology

Biden Polling, Trump’s Trials, and Tuesday’s Elections Skew the Anchoring Effect

9 November 2023 — 15 Comments

In Mike Johnson's Dystopia, the biggest baddest wolf votes for who to eat for dinner!

Cognitive Psychology

Mike Johnson at the Intersection of Democracy, Gerrymandering, and Gun Violence

5 November 2023 — 18 Comments

What do Republican gun policies, rising gun violence, and terrorism have in common?

Cognitive Psychology

The Republican Small Arms Proliferation Policies are Terrorism

28 October 2023 — 9 Comments

Why doesn't the American electorate punish the Republican Party for its anti-democratic authoritarian ways?

Politics

The Great Civics Lesson: Understanding the Views and Values of Democracy and How the Republicans are Opposed to Them

26 October 2023 — 15 Comments

Howdy Bob! Great thought on the Steel Dossier. There is definitely a strong Israel Russia Epstein connection. At this juncture,…

Howdy Bob! That Democrats ceded the working class and lower middle class and poor to the Republicans (not to mention…

Howdy Bob! They've gone full corruption, full authoritarian, full anti-democratic, and full white supremacy. Did you hear the dog whistles…

Except for maybe Elizabeth Warren. She's a lawyer, but never in court of law. The closest she came is testifying…

The Psy of Life

Understanding the psychology that drives our politics

Author: CalicoJack

Affective Polarization is Driving Trump Support

Election 2024: Understanding the Role of Status Quo Bias

Meme: Save Democracy in 2024, Vote Democrat

A Festivus Miracle! Man Rescued from 18-inch Hole!

Election 2024: The Undermining of our Democratic Culture by the Republican Party and Conservative Media

Hey Voters! Remember Pre- and Post-Dobbs America? Want More of That?

Your Festivus 2023 Cards are HERE!

Election 2024: The Always Punch a Nazi Election with Votes According to Behavioral Economics

The Threat to Our Democracy isn’t Just Trump, it is the Republican Party

Henry Kissinger: The Doctor of Our Nightmares

Bisy. Backson.

Handling Annoying Relatives at Thanksgiving

Call Your MoC About The Futility of the Freedumb Cockups Budget Fight or Y’all Lost, Now Pass the Damn Clean CR

Biden Polling, Trump’s Trials, and Tuesday’s Elections Skew the Anchoring Effect

Mike Johnson at the Intersection of Democracy, Gerrymandering, and Gun Violence

The Republican Small Arms Proliferation Policies are Terrorism

The Great Civics Lesson: Understanding the Views and Values of Democracy and How the Republicans are Opposed to Them