4 Posts found for source_day: 19

The Republican party has reached bottom and in their few moments of sobriety, conservatives know it.

Republicans began as the anti-slavery party in direct and vocal opposition to Southern Racism and the Know Nothings. They fought a civil war in order to change the world for the better.

Today it is the Klan and the John Birch Society cheering the Republican candidate on.

The first Republican president was … [ Read more ]

Author: Jim Wright | Source: Stonekettle Station (September 19, 2016) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy, Trump

To understand why Trump’s Carrier stunt succeeded, it’s worth turning to a 1964 political science classic, Murray Edelman’s The Symbolic Uses of Politics. The takeaway lesson is that in politics, clear symbolic actions are often more important than results (which are often ambiguous or unclear).

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Edelman’s foundational point is that most people don’t pay close attention to the details of policy, and the news media does … [ Read more ]

Author: Lee Drutman | Source: Vox (December 19, 2016) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy, Trump

Some have viewed conspiracy theories as a particular affectation of the American right […] Modern researchers, however, challenge the view that conspiracies are an exclusively rightwing feature, seeing such theories as a kind of magical thinking that allows people from all walks of life and political persuasions to cope with complex emotions, often brought on by an inexplicable event.

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The view that people believe in conspiracies … [ Read more ]

Author: Paul Ratner | Source: Big Think (March 19, 2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy, Psychology | Behavior

[The] trend toward rationality and enlightenment was endangered long before the advent of the Internet. As Neil Postman noted in his 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death, the rise of television introduced not just a new medium but a new discourse: a gradual shift from a typographic culture to a photographic one, which in turn meant a shift from rationality to emotions, exposition to entertainment. … [ Read more ]

Author: Hossein Derakhshan | Source: WIRED (October 19, 2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Communication, Culture, Excerpts, Intelligence | Knowledge, Life & Society, Sociology | Anthropology