The real key to American politics -- the Modern Art Gap.

[kpete]

Fun piece about how opinions of what is considered art correlate with Trump approval (remember Trump was a big fan of Thomas Kinkade and saw him as a fellow successful man who never got the elite respect he deserved)

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Simple polling reveals Americans’ views of President Donald Trump are split by variables like race, ethnicity, age, and increasingly by whether or not you earned a college degree.

Some other more unusual questions also reveal strong correlations, and those correlations may do more to reveal what’s really going on than basic demographic questions.

Consider, for example, Sam Gilliam’s 1980 painting “Coffee Thyme.” Data for Progress, a progressive think tank, partnered with YouGov Blue in a recent poll that showed this image (without any further identifying information) to respondents and asked them whether or not they consider it art.

MORE:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/16/20856316/poll-yougov-painting-ideology-trump

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. That piece and Kinkade's works are all art....

I just don't like that or Kinkade's art.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. Putting that piece blindly before me without any name or context......

It is "art" in the sense there is a concerted effort of repeated patterns, colors, shapes, etc. conveyed in a medium.

Now, the bigger question: Is it good art?

[rampartc]

3. i would proudly hasng that art

on the refrigerator door with a magnet if my child brought it home from school.

i'm sure if Ivanka brought that home trump would buy her a museum.

[The_jackalope]

4. Openness is from the "OCEAN" or Big Five" personality test.

High Openness traits: Imaginative • open-minded • experimental • prefers creative conceptual problem-solving

Low Openness traits: Traditionalist • down-to-earth • practical • conservative • prefers traditional outlooks and technical problem-solving

People with low Openness scores tend to be more authoritarian. I would bet that DUers would tend to have high Openness scores, and would tend to score higher than average on Agreeableness as well.

https://www.123test.com/personality-openness/#targetText=Openness%20is%20one%20of%20the,curious%2C%20and%20open%2Dminded.