2024 US Presidential Election

[EricHiggin]

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EricHiggin said:

Political aggression in general, in a democracy or similar, also tends to mean one side can't make its case to the opposition, so you start with aggression before you move on to force, to try and get your way. The left these days likes to say it's because some people, especially on the right, are so stupid, but that doesn't really make any sense, because that would mean the left was smarter, if not much smarter, and if they were that smart, it should be easy to dumb it down and explain it to most of the 'idiots'.

Some people just don't understand for different reasons, but there are some others who think they're much smarter than they actually are, as well some others who aren't near as dumb and useless as they're told they are. There's way too many people in bubbles that think they're open minded, when they're actually more so in "The Matrix" and don't realize it, or far worse, realize it, like it, and think it's what's best for everyone.

Contrary to one of my earlier post in this thread I don't actually think the right is "stupid". However that is not the point I want to make. 

The point I want to make is complicated issues are often complicated to solve but we as humans will default to what seems like the easiest solution. We believe what sounds simpler and easier to understand as best option. When often it could be the opposite but to explain so would take too much time to put in a TV ad or a 30 second soundbite. I think of this similar to the Dunning-Kruger Effect. You speak to someone who is a google expert on an issue they will tell you how to fix it but you talk to a real expert they will tell you fixing it is complicated.

I am bias here, but I often find that the democratic position is the more complicated of the two. Take immigration, it is easy to understand anyone who got here illegally was not supposed to be here should be removed. It is more complicated to explain that our already broken system is baked in and removing 12 million workers is detrimental to our workforce especially in the Agricultural sector and will likely result in higher prices at the grocery store. 

Let alone we live in a divided news media ecosystem where opposite positions don't really get fair coverage or are properly challenged on the positions they hold.   

You're just saying it's more complicated because the Dems made it that way with poor immigration policies. Making a mess and then suggesting someone leave it that way isn't a reasonable answer to the problem. The illegal immigrants weren't supposed to be in America to begin with, so removing them makes perfect sense. Obama even understood this during his Presidency. If Biden and Harris saw the need for more immigrant farm workers, they should've figured out a better way to bring them in legally. It's not like rural Republican farmers would've been against that if they need the help.

Higher food prices aren't the problem, it's people not being able to pay for it because of the poorly run economy. The food sector doesn't make jack in terms of profits, so it's not like they're gouging. Kamala may have kept pointing the finger at them, but that's because it was easy, but she doesn't know what she's talking about. I grew up on a farm, so if you think the food industry is the problem then you clearly don't get it, because it's the least of your worries in terms of rich elite sleazeballs trying to empty your pockets.

The news media sucks for information besides perhaps the weather. Podcasts are so much better than the news it's not funny. They aren't perfect, but their multi-hour format allows people to get into all the details as well as hash them out if they're seriously looking to do so.