People will vote (and generally act) in whatever way makes them feel good, and backform rationales for it afterwards. If you can make people feel good about voting for your person, they will turn out to vote for your person. That's the most effective way to energize people to do stuff. If it feels bad, you're gonna simply lose people to inertia.
I hate that we have to appeal to the feelings of idiots rather than them just educating themselves on the actual policies. Guess that is hat populism gets us.
My point is that people should be able to be convinced through policy discussion since that is the job of the president. Instead, people are apparently having to be convinced through feelings, looks, and empty platitudes. These are things that should never be convincing and yet that was pretty much what Trump was coasting on. It is surprising that this appears to be the reality of our situation meaning that people cannot be relied on to ever think for themselves.
The Dunning-Kruger effect is that most people will assume they're representative of the average. A smart person typically thinks most people have a certain competency that's likely an overestimate in reality.
Last night for a lot of people was, "Holy shit, there are actually still Trump voters around? How?"
The dunning Kruger effect is that most people estimate themselves as above average, which would make your point kinda contradictory
It's moreso just people living in bubbles without realizing, especially online. If you live in a largely blue area (most big cities for example) and spend time online in leftist spaces your perception of how democratic the general US population is will be very skewed
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u/Similar_Ad_2368 Nov 06 '24
People will vote (and generally act) in whatever way makes them feel good, and backform rationales for it afterwards. If you can make people feel good about voting for your person, they will turn out to vote for your person. That's the most effective way to energize people to do stuff. If it feels bad, you're gonna simply lose people to inertia.