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How has MAGA grown into this democracy destroying whiny white grievance machine? It turns out that hurt feelings, lack of representation, and political engagement actually do matter in a democracy.
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We all know Trump is a textbook narcissist, so why does anyone wonder when he pursues asinine goals in asinine ways? He’s a narcissist surrounded by sycophants who are eager to pick up whatever crumbs they can from him and goose-step the guilty outback of the kangaroo courts, line them up, and shoot them.
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Daniel Kahneman the co-founder of behavioral economics with the late Amos Tversky has died at age 90. Ye Olde Blogge has used his work to predict elections and explain the politics of our age. He will be missed.
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We face perilous times as the outrage industrial complex seeks to make a horserace by equating Trump’s dementia with Biden’s usual verbal gaffs, mix that with a public that can’t tell fact from opinion, and stakes are high
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It was Johnson’s first SOTU as Speaker and it showed. The usual reactions as part of the peanut gallery just won’t due when you’re on the podium in every shot with Ol’ Smokin’ Joe Biden throw haymakers. Dissect Johnson’s tells with us as we relive SOTU.
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Four minutes and a smile could save our democracy from the #GOPDystopia! #ScienceFact: smiling improves the way you perceive the world. Things don’t seem so big, bad, or terrible when you smile or you see someone smiling!
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Sex as clickbait almost always succeeds, so here are four interesting articles: hypersexuality, the risk-taking bi’s, elder sex, and Biden’s sex life.
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Election 2024 should be a shoe-in for the Democrats, so why are we so uncertain about the outcome of the 2024 election? Given the issues and recent elections, we shouldn’t be, but we are. New research on the neural basis of decision making and the effects of uncertainty help explain why. We’ll look at the role that the carryover effect, ageism, hindsight bias, and follow-the-leader politics plays in just how uncertain we feel going into the 2024 campaign.
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Robert Hur’s special council report on Biden was nothing short of Barrian political hatchet job complete with ageist slurs. Notably it actually did TOTALLY VINDICATE Biden and turned him into a very sympathetic character who was attacked unfairly.
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The only mystery left in the impending 7-2, 8-1, 9-0 SCOTUS vote to allow Trump ballot access is what kind of twisted reasoning are they going to use. Here’s the psychological explanation as to why even the liberal justices are going to allow it.
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Swing, moderate, independent, undecided voters, call them what you will, they are a fickle bunch, and they decide elections. Understanding them and the messages that will appeal to them will decide Election 2024. Here’s why Kennedy matters.
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If you can’t understand why Trump is doing so well in the polls, then I’ve got one word for you: affective polarization. Never-Trumpers hate Democrats more than they like Trump, it is that simple… and juvenile.
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We are all influenced by status quo bias, so it is important to understand how it will affect our decision making in the 2024 election. Spoiler: it will drive third party voting
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With time running out to pass a clean continuing resolution to keep the government open and funded, it is time once again for our favorite participatory democracy game, Call Your Member of Congress! Complete with venting, script, and contact info.
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Much is being made about the NYT Biden-Trump poll and Tuesday’s elections. Are they good, bad, indifferent? Here’s the real skinny: the anchoring effect skews all and Tues election results unskews it.
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We all wonder what the Republicans are planning for us in the dystopia. Mike Johnson’s 2 wolves & 1 lamb analogy of democracy tells us all we need to know… it ain’t good. Solution? Don’t vote wolves into office.
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The Maine mass shooting, Republican lax gun laws, and Speaker Johnson combine to tell us that Republicans are coordinating a terror campaign in America. They are trying to scare Americans into abandoning democracy because it cannot keep them safe and protect their rights. Election 2024 needs to punish Republicans for their efforts.
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There can be no excuses made for the extreme violence being perpetrated right now in Southern Israel and Gaza. No good can come out of answering atrocity with atrocity, outrage with outrage. We should take a page from the Black community and respond to hate and violence with grace, humility, and foregiveness.
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The current military conflict between Israel and Hamas is as horrific as it is baffling. Why would Hamas choose suicide? Israel is retaliating with overwhelming force. The only answer is that the Israeli-created conditions in Gaza have reached a breaking point. Desperate measures for desperate times.
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I know, TL;DR, but you should R because it is a barn burner and is the perfect dissection of the SCOTUS decision on LGBTQ+ rights and sincerely held religious beliefs. You won’t believe what the real solution is, but you’ll agree.
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