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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Voting is our super power. Registering people to vote is amplifying our power. Find out how you can help save democracy by helping to get the vote out in 2024!
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It was a busy week! Diane Feinstein died, Biden walked a picket line, Trump lied, racism happened in America. There’s good psychology explaining all of the stories. Read it here. And come back next week for more.
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We are systematically transferring billions of dollars a year from the middle class to the wealthy class increasing the wealth gap and impoverishing everyone else. Here are two examples of how the wealth pump is taking your money and how Biden is stemming the flow.
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During the past couple of weeks I came face-to-face with the destructiveness of dark tetrad personality characteristics both in my personal life and in the SOTUS. The behavior of House Republicans makes a stark illustration of just how impossible large gatherings of personality disorders make cooperation and achieving goals. Craven self interest will be the downfall of human kind.
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With one third of the population set to have their inner authoritarian meltdown at any moment, what can we do to get them to see democracy as their in-group? How can Democrats continue to peel authoritarians off of the MAGA base?
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The problem with the Republicans and their authoritarian pusch is that voters, and I mean white voters, won’t punish them for their anti-democratic ways. We see it EVERY election, a majority of white voters vote fascist.
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Why do all of the conservative traits cluster around the fucked up end of the spectrum? Racism, misogyny, homophobia, authoritarianism. All conservative traits. But, history is on our side!
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The Republican effort to undermine the Biden administration makes it that much more likely that #Putin will win in #Ukraine. Putin is literally attacking the Western democratic way of life. We must see ourselves as one people in order to win this war.
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Our democracy died when we started electing politicians who thought it was more important that they get re-elected than representing their constituents or political positions.
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It was a real week what with the anniversary of the 6 January Insurrection and the Cambodian Genocide and two major speeches and back spasms plus all the Internet blog reading that you could want to to do. You’ll not want to miss a moment!
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