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applegrove

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1. When people feel financial anxiety they stop voting with

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Sun Mar 30, 2025, 02:20 PM

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reason and start voting with feelings. There is science on this. Then a populist leader comes along and promises to share in destroying an elite "that is keeping you down" and the voter shares in the charisma of the leader and gets self esteem and power that way.

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