Trump’s sentencing in his New York hush money case is scheduled for July 11.

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    6 months ago

    I don’t know if this post was intended to be a reply to me or not, since I wasn’t talking about Biden at all

    To clarify, you said

    . In this case, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to focus in on November and the few months following it.

    I agree, which is why I said when we focus on November, what’s likely winning the most votes is a candidate that voters agree with.

    Which kind of comes full circle to what I was talking about. If we’re focusing on the best path to beating trump, Biden needs to start listening to voters.

    And all indications show that’s not going to happen.

    Biden saying people need to compromise their morals and vote for him anyways because Trump is worse, would work a hell of a lot better if Biden was willing to compromise with voters too.

    It’s not even a good short term plan for Biden to act like he currently is. But it’s the presented option and stress makes people only avoid short term negatives, it hampers their ability to plan and evaluate better options.

    So our stressed out monkey brains take the presented option that’s “lesser of two evils” and commits to it instead of taking a second to breathe and evaluate. Because of that, when people try to talk about options, some people reflexively assume that there’s two choices, and everyone has to want one or the other. The amount of times I’ve been accused of being a trump supporter for saying Biden could do better is insane. And it’s the result of the same high stress thinking that republican voters have been stuck in for decades.

    And that’s not a comment on anyone’s intelligence. This is how millions of years of evolution has wired us, it’s 100% natural and expected to fall.into that feedback loop. It’s just being exploited so that whatever happens, the wealthy stay wealthy.

    I feel like I mention this a lot, but a few years ago one of the conservative billionaires on WB’s board openly said he was going to make CNN more like faux news. And I just can’t help but think it’s not just correlation, it’s the ruling class’s strategy working.