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I'm certainly no fan of tribalism; but if you think in terms of "convincing the proles," you can probably answer your own question as to why you can't persuade

• cryoshon 11y ago
  The concept of proles is just a convenient shorthand that I used; I assume most people fit the bill as selling their labor for a living, the conventional definition of proletarian. The admission that most people can but won't think for themselves drives my thoughts on this matter. There is a large segment of the population whose media diet consists of middlebrow newspapers, talk radio, and primetime television-- these media will absolutely never divest them of a tribal mindset.
  • jacquesm 11y ago
    If only it were that simple. A fair percentage of the ultra-rightwing voters in NL are university educated. You're not going to get too far if you label everybody that votes for these parties as people that 'won't think for themselves'. They do, they just end up with the wrong conclusions for all the right reasons.