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applegrove

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1. The book 'Enchanted America' goes into how financial anxiety results

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Tue Jan 22, 2019, 11:07 PM

Jan 2019

in people being way, way more intuitive than rational in their voting (isolated from other factors). Way more so than income level. So people vote way more through emotion and other cognitive shortcuts when suffering from financial anxiety. So they vote against their best interests and thus for republicans. You have to wonder if health care insecurity and college loan repayment insecurity are purposeful on the part of the GOP to make non rich Americans less rational. Maybe that is why Mitch is so happy to let this shutdown continue.

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo28752049.html

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