The political bubble and how it affects your opinion

[Dill]

(07-25-2019, 08:31 AM)Crazyjdawg Wrote: 6. Aaaaaand, there it is. The kool aid is in full effect at this point haha. What began as a relatively rational evaluation of the differences between Republicans and Democrats which had occasional partisan twists and turns has now gone fully out the window with this patented talking point of Democrats want to be Venezuela because they think medical care and education availability should not be restricted based on how much money you have in your bank account/at your disposal.

Politics are fun :)

Excellent example of bubble-think in the Quora quote. "young socialist lawyers are too young to remember when . . ." lol. I have seen a lot of these talking points before. "Socialist" many be replacing "the left" as the primary instrument for framing issues from a right wing perspective. 2020 will mean a choice between Trump and North Korea.

How many Dems who think the current rate of climate change is anthropogenic don't know that the earth's climate has changed before?  No one who was familiar with global warming arguments, or who had actual interaction with Democrats on the issue, would say such things. That suggests your poster is absorbing his "information" with great confidence in his sources and little interest in testing it. Still inside that bubble while posting on Quora.

This raises the question, as well, of whether, how and to what degree some bubbles are constructed, at least partially, by interests actually outside them.  Exxon knows what drives climate change, but has funded development of climate-skeptical arguments and politicians who will push them to roll back environmental regulation.
(A plug for the documentary The Great Hack is running on MSNBC as I type this. The film examines how differing newsfeeds construct differing "personalized" versions of reality. One of the directors suggests polarization may be intrinsic to facebook's business model. Divided consumers become the "commodity.")

A final random comment, the group behind the survey driving this thread is called "Heterodox Academy," and their stated goal is to re-establish political civility, academic free inquiry, and informed political dialogue, which they think in part requires the challenge of "orthodoxy" in thinking, the latter signalled by personal attack and shaming rather than rational argument.  I agree with some of their goals for cross-bubble dialogue, but this is a thoroughgoing liberal project which brings its own "orthodoxy."  Policing of public discourse will always be required, paradoxically, to secure the kind of "free inquiry" these folks hold as an ideal. Liberals have always had difficulty acknowledging this. I say better to admit that and argue why their orthodoxy is preferable to other orthodoxies.