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Originally Posted by JurisDictum
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Yea, Cecily...I'm trying to get people to step back from the lowest common denominator mind controls like political parties and the two different MSM teams. What your post effectively does there is use academic psychology to rationalize why its probably fine because we all do it.
But the thing about human inherent biases like this, is it greatly matters how familiar you are with them. For example: people are loss adverse. We get more dissatisfaction out of losing $1000, then we gain in satisfaction from gaining $1000.
Wallstreet traders are close to immune to this effect. They trade (assume risk) a lot more rationally. Being risk neutral is really the only way to beat the game. Otherwise your probably gonna be one of those idiots investing in every peak and selling every dip. Or perhaps keeping all your money in T-bills or cash rather than something which much higher returns and still low risk.
I think you might be underestimating how sticky ideologies are when it comes to IDEA part. We colloquially call democrats and republicans ideologies...but the thing about these two communities -- is there ideology changes all the time.
Democrats have always been about balanced budgets and funding tesla -- wait a minute -- that is nothing like the party before Clinton...Him and his neoliberal movement took over the community called democrats and changed a lot of their ideology to be more in line with theirs.
Rerpublicans used to be a northeastern party that wanted structural improvements, congressional supremacy, and an eventual end to slavery.
I don't think there's a lot of that left as far as republican "ideology" is concerned.
Compare this with the ideas associated with "Libertarian" or "marxist" -- these (that are actual ideologies) have changed far less.
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I don't think its fine at all. It's sad to watch! I think the idea part is far less important than the fact these are teams and you follow your team, with whatever ideas they're going with at the moment. And the other team can go fuck itself. This inherently does not lend itself to compromise or resolution of issues. Due to the fact that opposing world views are all "correct" from the context which leads one to adopt them, the only winning move is not to play. Then you have a better view. Affiliating yourself with any political movement or belief system is akin to asking a mob to think for you.