Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
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In reply to the discussion: OMG, he is scolding voters and saying their votes are wrong [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)at the expense of expanding his appeal. Research shows that followers don't just change to adopt their leaders' beliefs, but that leaders also change to reflect their followers.
He's created a a nativism-lite class-warfare movement, an alternative to Trump's hard-line nativist authoritarian one, for instance. Agreeing to serve AA issues would offend many of the socially conservative-leaning bros he needs for his revolution, and even more of them he hoped to draw away from Trump. He made his choice.
And so on and on. In both cases, the bases drawn to the messages they've spread for years now most accurately reflect each of them.
Very on point for the primaries, most of Sanders' hard-core base have an almost fanatic devotion to his theme that Democrats have victimized him and them and are as bad as, and no alternative to, Republicans. To the point that contradicting that message has in the past generated real anger -- against him. Of course, the broad range of sensible Democrats, whom his delusions of large numbers of insurgents flocking to his revolution apparently lead him to believe he wouldn't need, don't agree with it.
A specific discussion about one trait that doesn't apply to all (some are reportedly attracted by a need to be part of something they see as great and meaningful, for instance) but related to this general point, from Scientific American:
There has been an increasing recognition in psychology that personality traits interact with messaging from leaders. "A crucial skill for politicians is... to speak the 'language of personality'... by identifying and conveying those individual characteristics that are most appealing at a certain time to a particular constituency," note Gian Caprara and Philip Zimbardo. They found that voters select politicians whose traits match their own personality. ...
Perhaps the most important interaction in the world today, however, is that between antagonism and populism. The core feature of populism is an anti-establishment message and a focus on the central importance of the people. The anti-establishment message portrays the political elite as corrupt and evil, and disinterested in the interests of "the pure people." According to John Judis and Ruy Teixeira, the essential divide among populists is "the people versus the powerful."
In a recent series of studies, political communication professor Bert Bakker and his colleagues conducted the largest and most systematic investigation into the question: What happens when antagonistic citizens receive an anti-establishment message? They found strong support for the notion that the anti-establishment message of populists resonates the most with highly antagonistic people. This finding was confirmed in seven countries across three different continents. Antagonism predicted support for populists for both right-wing (Trump, UKIP, Danish People's Party, Party for Freedom, SVP) and left-wing populists(Podemos, Chavez).
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/the-personality-trait-that-is-ripping-america-and-the-world-apart/
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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