The Biology of Fear: Why Your Brain Picks Your Politics
Something doesn’t add up about American politics.
Millions of people vote against their own healthcare. They vote against their own wages. They vote against clean air and clean water in their own neighborhoods. And when you show them the data, when you lay out the numbers, when you present the evidence that the policies they support will hurt them personally, they don’t change their minds. They get angry. They dig in deeper. They call you the enemy.
This has confused political strategists, journalists, and psychologists for decades. How do you explain a voting population that consistently…
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