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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do you think it will be like in the country for the next decade? Climate deniers, health care vaccine deniers, data deniers. Add the type of deniers you have seen or you predict will emerge within the next 10 years. People from other countries and/or if you have lived extensively elsewhere : can you draw correlations to what you have seen in a different country, and if you have kids, do you advise your kid to move to the country from where you moved to the US even if the kid has never visited or lived in that country? Should people try to move to ...I don't know ...Mars? [/quote]

[b]Data deniers?  That’s funny.[/b]  Part of what we’re seeing is the use of big data by the Rs and Ds to identify and target increasingly refined subsets of people so that they can effectively message to them (read - activate people’s tribal instincts to separate into us v them / insider v outsider groups) and, therefore, build their pre-election coalitions of such groups under their respective tents.

In the short term, I think you’ll see the parties shift quickly (or more quickly than previously) between elections to refine their messaging and therefore coalitions.  For example, the Rs will move on from MAGA identity / messaging quickly once it isn’t effective.  They are already testing what their next “brand” will be.

Just beyond that, I think people will realize they’re being played / activated and that their “political identity” is simply one of many identities that they have, and will revert to the pragmatic wisdom of the past—refrain from talking about divisive topics like politics or religion in polite company; realize that people are more interesting than their politics or religion; realize you can be friends with folks that have different political or religious beliefs based on other shared interests (e.g., playing sports or other activities, non-political advocacy like rescuing animals). Pendulum swings back to folks being mostly polite because the alternative is to be a constantly activated nincompoop that is always looking to fight, and most people really don’t want to live that way.[/quote]

There are people who refuse to look at data to try to come to correlations. They would rather listen to a certain someone on a certain channel. America magas, wake the F up[/quote]

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