Wednesday, April 09, 2025

Politics compromises rational thought

(My Eastern New Mexico News column for April 9, 2025)




If you know someone's biases, you can fool them into believing almost anything as long as it aligns with those biases. Politicians are good at this because their victims self-select to listen to the politicians who appeal to their biases. People who are emotionally invested in a specific political ideology are particularly susceptible to influence.

They are primed to be manipulated...read the rest...

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