Election 2024 – The Psy of Life

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Biases and Heuristics, Cognitive Psychology

Simplicity Bias Explains A Fickle Electorate, the 2024 Election, and the 2025 Off-Year Elections

8 November 2025 — 15 Comments

Profaney Punditry: All The Thoughts That Got Away, the week of 19 October

24 October 2025 — 9 Comments

Why am I struggling so much with coming to terms with Election 2024?

Recovering from the Disillusionment of Trump’s Election and His Daily Explosive Diarrhea of Lies, Propaganda, and Other Bullshit

1 February 2025 — 14 Comments

What can the average person do to help save our democracy?

10 Things We Can All Do to Protect Democracy — Democracy Docket

26 January 2025 — 12 Comments

The re-election of Trump and the GOP majorities in Congress are the worst of all possible outcomes of election 2024. Our reaction amounts to ontological shock at adjusting to this new reality.

Navigating Ontological Shock of Election 2024

8 December 2024 — 20 Comments

White voters won't tolerate living in a minority majority democracy. They want minority rule.

Election 2024: White Rule Now, White Rule Tomorrah, White Rule Forevah!

14 November 2024 — 24 Comments

How can Trump's "victory" be explained by anything other than his appeal to our inner toxic masculine selves?

Election 2024: Toxic Masculinity for the Win!

6 November 2024 — 24 Comments

Election 2024: Last Day of Voting LIVE BLOG

6 November 2024 — 22 Comments

How are the hot takes running in your mentions? Is Biden in or out as the Democratic candidate?

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Comment on This ^2: The Republican Women’s Vote and a Landslide Loss Helps Trump Steal the Election

4 November 2024 — 43 Comments

Why do we put so much stock in polling data? The results play havoc with our perceptions because of our cognitive biases and heuristics

Cognitive Psychology

Cognitive Biases and Polling: Navigating the Illusion of Certainty

2 November 2024 — 14 Comments

Why is that so many young men are attracted to Trump? Could it be his juvenile schtick actually appeals?

Election 2024: Trump’s Juvenility Rallies Young Male Support

30 October 2024 — 23 Comments

Can science explain why we're so uncertain of the outcome of the 2024 election?

Cognitive Psychology

Embracing Uncertainty: The Wild Ride of Election 2024

26 October 2024 — 5 Comments

How did we go from a nation of George Washingtons to a nation of sniveling lying Donald Trumps? Menticide

Cognitive Psychology

Election 2024: Menticide or How Trump Replaced Our Democratic Values with Narcissistic Delusions

21 October 2024 — 27 Comments

Can lies be used to guide the ship of state?

Behavior Economics

Election 2024: The Easier Question Heuristic Shapes the Choices of Undecided and Low-Propensity Voters

14 October 2024 — 3 Comments

Why do we let Trump tear us down with his lies about our democracy?

Using Our Shared Beliefs About Democracy to Defend It From the Tremendous Damage of Trump’s Big Lie

4 October 2024 — 9 Comments

How many ways are Trump and Vance Disqualified for office? And how was their disqualification shown in the VP debate?

The VP Debate: “A Damning Non-Answer” Understanding Who Won the Debate and Why

2 October 2024 — 10 Comments

Why is it that the chronic liar, convicted criminal, rapist, traitorous, incompetent Trump is treated as a viable and acceptable candidate by the media?

Behavior Economics

The Media’s Role in Making Trump a Viable Acceptable Candidate: the Mere Exposure Effect, Availability Heuristic, and Confirmation Bias

28 September 2024 — 18 Comments

How is it that statewide races favor Democrats by wide margins in Arizona and North Carolina, but Harris and Trump are essentially tied?

Election 2024: Accounting for the Wildly Differing Polls for Statewide Races versus the Presidential Race in Swing States

25 September 2024 — 41 Comments

How easy did Trump's narcissism make baiting him into making his ridiculous racist comments about Haitians eating pets in Springfield, Ohio?

Narcissistic Personality

The Debate Exposed How Easy It Is to Use Trump’s Narcissism to Manipulate Him

17 September 2024 — 9 Comments

How can we explain Kemp's sudden change of heart and support for Trump?

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Comment on This: Why is Georgia’s Governor, Brian Kemp, Campaigning for Trump?

1 September 2024 — 9 Comments

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Thursday 28 August
Winnipeg, Canada

Howdy y'all!

The house and the move has finally settled into a lower level of effort. My time is finally freed from some very urgent difficult tasks like assembling furniture and organizing and tracking deliveries.

Good news, La Petite Fille has been officially admitted to university, and we will be getting her registered for classes. They begin next week! But, major milestone in her life, reached. I couldn't be prouder, happier, or, quite honestly, more relieved.

I just published a post concerning how Trump et al. aren't dealing with reality. I'm thinking that it will be an on-going frequent column. The problem is what to call it. The Cray-Cray Watch? Has It Bitten Us in the Ass, Yet? I'm open to suggestions, though.

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