I think one big issue, is that it requires confronting the cognitive dissonance of being a sucker. They’d have to accept that they’ve been fooled for so lobg which is a blow to the ego a lot of people can’t handle.
They don’t want to confront the obvious lies, because they’re invested in believing them. They’re caught in phantasms.
And fear. If you get someone to build up enough fear for everything but you then they feel irresponsible not to vote for you. We, the users of a decentralized Linux forum, are not the type of people to fall into this mindset
Yeah, that’s true. There’s a self-selection bias here that makes us more likely to be technically minded and part of a counterculture. That probably gives some of us a bit of a blind spot to the thought processes of the average American.
I think one big issue, is that it requires confronting the cognitive dissonance of being a sucker. They’d have to accept that they’ve been fooled for so lobg which is a blow to the ego a lot of people can’t handle.
They don’t want to confront the obvious lies, because they’re invested in believing them. They’re caught in phantasms.
And fear. If you get someone to build up enough fear for everything but you then they feel irresponsible not to vote for you. We, the users of a decentralized Linux forum, are not the type of people to fall into this mindset
Yeah, that’s true. There’s a self-selection bias here that makes us more likely to be technically minded and part of a counterculture. That probably gives some of us a bit of a blind spot to the thought processes of the average American.