Hearing What You Want to Hear and Disregarding the Rest

[DeepWinter]

6. It's really difficult

to reign in your bias. And as your emotions ramp up, your bias ramps up too.

The polls were showing a tight race. Many didn't want to believe it. They outright denied it. "Trash polls."
DNC polls showed a tight race. Didn't want to believe it. Just a rumor.
Biden/Harris inside polling showing a tight race. That just can't be real.

The reality hits and it's real.

Post-mortem , there are people STILL not believing it is real. It was stolen. Hacked. Clearly rigged.

Alcoholics have 101 reasons they tell themselves they don't have a problem.
Strong political bias will have 101 reasons what happened was because of _________________, because only my side clearly should win.

Fact of the matter is we have an incredibly diverse nation. Diverse in thought, opinion, beliefs, ideology. Getting enough people to agree on a pretty generalized political platform and win a simple majority isn't as easy as you would think it should be. Getting 100 people to agree on one idea isn't that hard. To agree on 5 ideas, you start losing people. To agree on 20 ideas, you lose a lot. 100 ideas, you're probably down to one person who's making the list.

We need to tighten up our core messaging, because as we expand out, we lose people. Just my personal experience and opinion.