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Are political pendulum swings a self fulfilling prophesy?
287 sats \ 4 comments \ @unschooled 26 Mar Politics_And_Law
I've always heard that when an economy is weak, Western democracies tend to vote in a change in government.
Is this.. ..
  • True because people actually want change
  • True because people vote according to how they think others are going to vote?
  • True because the people vote doesn't even matter, and elections are predetermined by a cabal of global elite?
  • True because "the people are retarded?"
  • Or not true at all?
I wonder if there is some self-fulfilling prophesy happening.
To illustrate, this happened recently in my lizard brain:
Carney took a lead in polls. Lizard brain: don't f*ing vote at all democracy is retarded. Pollievre may be back (?). Lizard brain: Hey, maybe I will participate in this archaic tribal activity if we're going to win. Why not?
I already know what some of you ancaps going to say. This is a nuanced thought, grounded in realities present day realities.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 26 Mar
Everything is cyclical, from the expansion and contraction to the universe, to the double helix of your DNA... all things in balance.
It's literally the strong men create good times create weak men / 4th turning meme.
Forcing functions
elections are predetermined by a cabal of global elite
Just another cycle
Nationalists build strong nations Strong nations become coveted by globalists Globalists weaken strong nations Nationalists rebuild their nation out of self-preservation
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11 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 26 Mar
All of the above?
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136 sats \ 1 reply \ @unschooled OP 26 Mar
It seems like that might be the case... Perhaps, the better way of posing the question would have been: if there were such a thing as the collective psyche, how much can it be swayed by polling data and or news cycles?
Personally, I feel instinctually more willing to participate when I'm led to believe the system is working as advertised. Trump's campaign took the angle that that could have been the last chance at an election. I'd bet that got lots of otherwise disenchanted voters to the polls. Before this current age of lonliness, people's tribal instincts perhaps evolved more slowly, based on real world interactions with people from their community, as opposed to the snap judgements made when the orange man yells at you through your airpods.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 26 Mar
It seems to be true. We know people often don't vote for their preferred candidate, if it's a third party, because they're "throwing their vote away".
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