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Status quo bias is difficult to overcome. Republicans are using several techniques to win 2024 and destroy our democracy. Chief among them is making government ineffective by gumming up the works with all their crap.
The news is full of breathless speculation on who I2I4 will choose as his VP. Frankly, it is just more normalization of Trump’s abnormality. I mean, Senator Rubio is on the list. For God’s sake, has anyone learned anything about the gross caricature of a human meat puppet? […]
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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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That the airwaves and etherways are clogged with the detritus of Republican mis and disinformation is no mystery. The only real question is, how to counter it. As it turns out the snarky, sarcasticky, and profaney among us have been right all along! Vicious mockery works, who knew?
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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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Just when you thought it was safe to protest vote, Clayton Jones of Claytoonz reminds us of the actual stakes.
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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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The entire country is stuck in a miasmatic malaise of endless government shutdowns, obviously corrupt judicial decisions, legislativeless Congresses, shrinking Civil Rights, and continual climate disasters all against the thunderous backdrop of gun violence, murder, and mayhem, which had eroded our collective mental health.
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Everybody is losing their minds over Election 2024. Trump won SC by DOUBLE DIGITS! He’s UNSTOPPABLE! If he’s convicted he’ll lose 30% of his voters. The vote in SC was meaningless. Convince me I’m wrong.
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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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The hottest take in the last ten days is that Biden is too old to be president because old, so the Dems should run someone else. Well, who would you run instead and why? Let us know, in the comments!
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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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The media insists that both Republicans and Democrats pose violent threats against our democratic norms and traditions when it clearly is only the Republicans that do. This post ties together how elite overproduction and racial animus combine to produce the Republican threat to our democracy.
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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’ve all noticed Trump’s increased use of Hitleresque dehumanizing metaphors for immigrants and his perceived opponents. There’s a reason for that. Metaphor is a major brain hack! Find out how.
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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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Like it or not, we have a binary system with only two major parties. You either vote Biden and the Democrats and save our democracy from fascism or you vote Trump and the Republicans, third party, or don’t vote, and help Trump and the Republicans usher in fascism. Remember election 2016 and Dobbs.
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The way you undermine an established democracy is by attacking its democratic culture. You’ve got to get people who once believed in democratic solutions to their problems to accept autocratic ones. Here’s the progress polling reveals Trump and Republicans have made in eroding our democratic culutre.
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Are young voters about to pull a 2016 on us and let Trump go all Grover Cleveland on us? Didn’t we learn ANYTHING from 2016? Don’t we know what the stakes are by now? Recent polling says maybe not.
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