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Voters don't respond to long-term policy wins or economic data. They respond to the perception of their material conditions, and the rise in inflation of the l
by sn9 2y ago
Voters don't respond to long-term policy wins or economic data.
They respond to the perception of their material conditions, and the rise in inflation of the last few years has resulted in regime change all over the world.
Liberals are only just now beginning to realize this, but it remains to be seen if they'll learn at a scale that matters.
- monkeyfun 2y agoAnd of course, one of the other dirty aspects to this is that if you're willing to emotionally jerk off and manipulate your base to the extreme, that basic perception of material conditions can distort away from reality. Not completely so, but it's part of what makes populism so powerful, and unless they can find ways to embrace elements of populism they're going to find nobody's receptive to their messages.
- Whoppertime 2y agoIt doesn't matter how much you manipulate people if they cannot afford to get married buy a home and raise kids they will know.