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Current days political campaigning is pure emotional control. And its in a runaway effect state. Politicians, backed by professional PR companies who in turn a
by me_me_me 5y ago
Current days political campaigning is pure emotional control. And its in a runaway effect state.
Politicians, backed by professional PR companies who in turn are based on sociology/psychology and years of studies, can pull on emotional strings of people who are already self identify into entrenched positions. Using emotions is clearly easier and more powerful way of getting votes. The only way to win is to play their game, and that costs a lot of money.
Its a fools game to try convince anyone with facts, it simply doesn't work. Thats why anti vaccines, flat earth etc are so rampant today. The more you reason with those type of people the more you entrench them.
- hughrr 5y agoI don’t know why you’re being downvoted because that’s exactly what they’re doing. I worked for a company that was being paid to work out how best to manipulate people into certain political outcomes by trying things and measuring results. Of course they didn’t market themselves as that. I quit when I worked out what they were doing.
- aaron-santos 5y agoInterested in hearing more about your story if you're willing to share.
- hughrr 5y agoI’d probably get fucked over if I mention names which would be required. Not very nice people.
- chasd00 5y ago"trying things and measuring results" do you mean plain jane A/B testing?
- hughrr 5y agoNope much more insidious. A/B testing is statistically random. This thing dangled the desirable result down a path of rewards to attempt to reprogram people into accepting version A while discarding version B, then measuring which method to do so was more effective.