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Republican voters have been voting against their own self interest for the last forty years because of Reaganism. And this last year, they capped it off with Tr
by greyhair 5y ago
Republican voters have been voting against their own self interest for the last forty years because of Reaganism. And this last year, they capped it off with Trumpism.
Because both Reagan and Trump (though very different) had such a grasp of showmanship and stage craft.
As far as I am concerned, the people of Ohio are getting exactly what they want, which is exactly what they deserve.
- lukifer 5y agoYou won't find a more vigorous critic of Reaganite neo-liberalism than myself; but the phenomenon of "voting against self-interest" is not limited to one party. The feedback loops of electoral politics are distant and slow (especially at the national scale), and the winner-take-all voting system constrains political preferences to a relatively narrow spectrum of choices (the Overton window). These factors conspire to make voting more heavily tilted towards tribal signaling [0] than policy outcomes, and entrenched power structures (both public and private) are incentivized to maximize this phenomenon from both sides of the aisle [1]. [0] https://www.elephantinthebrain.com/ https://www.elephantinthebrain.com/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent