Brad Sallows
Army.ca Legend
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"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof."
Psychologists/sociologists must have a name for the way in which people will believe oddball stuff on not very much evidence, but I don't know what it is. I assume it has something to do with reinforcing political/social prior beliefs. Not sure how else people can flip from being sober skeptics of claims of widespread orchestrated election fraud to being gullible fools about worries of imminent civil war with US armed services taking sides during the legal wrangling after a close presidential election three years from now.
There is going to be more in this vein. Follow the politics. BBB is dead. Midterms in less than 11 months. A lesser BBB and/or a bill to limit states' options for election controls ("voting rights") have been cited as two leading objectives for next year. To support the latter, expect the "democracy in danger" propaganda theme to resume in the media. (It already has.)
Psychologists/sociologists must have a name for the way in which people will believe oddball stuff on not very much evidence, but I don't know what it is. I assume it has something to do with reinforcing political/social prior beliefs. Not sure how else people can flip from being sober skeptics of claims of widespread orchestrated election fraud to being gullible fools about worries of imminent civil war with US armed services taking sides during the legal wrangling after a close presidential election three years from now.
There is going to be more in this vein. Follow the politics. BBB is dead. Midterms in less than 11 months. A lesser BBB and/or a bill to limit states' options for election controls ("voting rights") have been cited as two leading objectives for next year. To support the latter, expect the "democracy in danger" propaganda theme to resume in the media. (It already has.)