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It should have become obvious after Jan. 6, and yet... I think a lot of people react the way they do because of fallacious thinking: if the US has two politica

It should have become obvious after Jan. 6, and yet... I think a lot of people react the way they do because of fallacious thinking: if the US has two political parties, each with about 50% of the vote, then it is simply not possible for one of the parties to be run by radical extremists. Ergo, the other side has to be exaggerating or publishing fake news. (If someone has a name for this type of fallacy, please let me know.) Of course, an uncomfortable number of people also cheer the authoritarian takeover of US government and try to normalize the mess for that reason.

mrbombastic 1y ago
It is not exactly the same but i think it is some variation of the golden mean fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation?wprov=s...
AnimalMuppet 1y ago
"Nut picking". You find the most crazy, unhinged, out-there thing said by a Democrat/Republican, and you use that to paint all of them as crazy, unhinged, completely out of touch with reality. Meanwhile, the other side is busily doing the same thing to your side.) You can do the same thing with religion, economics, even sports.
- johnnyanmac 1y ago
  >You find the most crazy, unhinged, out-there thing said by a Democrat/Republican, and you use that to paint all of them as crazy, unhinged, completely out of touch with reality. This only works when you assume every person is the same. The POTUS saying these unhinged things makes it hard to discount this as some fringe argument. Especially when Congress and the SCOTUS do nothing to check it.