People aren't voting for what benefits them which means we are now in post policy politics. That means that what matters is the messaging and not the actual things done or the impact of those things on people. This leads to doing things that you have the ability to message the way you want and not doing things that help people. The MAGA crowd figured this out and figured out that angry yelling is the easiest message out there.
This is why democrats lost. They kept trying to have policy discussions about how to run the country along with ways to implement policy tied to impact on people, but that is hard to message. The MAGA crowd just finds things they can yell about. By the time impact happens they just yell about something else, louder and the people being hurt are just ignored.
The discussion about how much money is being saved/spent/etc is basically meaningless in post policy politics. The average person can have a massive drop in life expectancy and quality of life and it won't impact their voting so why does it matter how and where government spending happens? The sound bite is all that people are looking at and because of that DOGE is a huge success for those using it to get what they want.
"Limbic Governing System", is the term I learned recently. We are governed by posts on 'the socials' designed to trigger kneejerk responses from our limbic system. By undercutting education, (real) social interactions, and science in general people are falling back to their animal instincts more and more.
That ties in well with my experience of news and social media spewing out "Amygdala-bait". Anything to short circuit your rational thought processes and get you angry, indignant, fearful, smug, shocked, etc.
I don't know if that's purely due to chasing advertising revenue via "engagement". We certainly saw something like it in the 90s with 24/7 news channels.
And with some people being just fine with obviously fake AI slop images and stories, it feels like they're just fine with no longer having to think complex thoughts.
Has this happened before in history? Is it part of a natural cycle in society? I am very doomer when it comes to climate change, so I wonder if people subconsciously feel like "there's no future so why bother thinking?"
This post is a series of illogical leaps strung together one after another, starting with the first sentence. The core fallacy that is obvious in your post is that you seem to think everyone who voted for Trump is part of this “MAGA” group of yelling yokel troglodytes. Your viewpoint is utterly saturated with obvious polarization. I honestly don’t know a single MAGA or anyone who would be caught dead at a Trump rally, but I know lots of Trump voters. Most of them do care about policy and they say the same thing - they don’t really like Trump, but they’re tired of bad policies and extreme liberalization of everything.
Voting for Trump is stupid. Im sure there are plenty of people with lots of schooling that voted for Trump. They made a stupid choice.
Even if you agree with some policies Trump is the height of incompetence fraud corruption and abuse of power. Gutting effcient and useful goverment agencies to fund the Wall is stupid and wasteful. It also wont reduce illegal immigration.
Could you expand on that? I can understand why someone mighy not like Harris but I cant see why voting her is stupider then voting to fuck up the country.
It's wild to me, as someone who grew up thinking I was conservative, that conservatives hated Biden and Harris so much. Nobody ever brings the receipts either.
This is why democrats lost. They kept trying to have policy discussions about how to run the country along with ways to implement policy tied to impact on people, but that is hard to message. The MAGA crowd just finds things they can yell about. By the time impact happens they just yell about something else, louder and the people being hurt are just ignored.
The discussion about how much money is being saved/spent/etc is basically meaningless in post policy politics. The average person can have a massive drop in life expectancy and quality of life and it won't impact their voting so why does it matter how and where government spending happens? The sound bite is all that people are looking at and because of that DOGE is a huge success for those using it to get what they want.