Before the COVID-19 pandemic which seems to have reset all brains and memories
“In one experiment, CA would show people on online panels pictures of simple bar graphs about uncontroversial things (e.g., the usage rates of mobile phones or sales of a car type) and the majority would be able to read the graph correctly. However, unbeknownst to the respondents, the data behind these graphs had actually been derived from politically controversial topics, such as income inequality, climate change, or deaths from gun violence. When the labels of the same graphs were later switched to their actual controversial topic, respondents who were made angry by identity threats were more likely to misread the relabeled graphs that they had previously understood. What CA observed was that when respondents were angry, their need for complete and rational explanations was also significantly reduced. In particular, anger put people in a frame of mind in which they were more indiscriminately punitive, particularly to out-groups. They would also underestimate the risk of negative outcomes. This led CA to discover that even if a hypothetical trade war with China or Mexico meant the loss of American jobs and profits, people primed with anger would tolerate that domestic economic damage if it meant they could use a trade war to punish immigrant groups and urban liberals.”
― Christopher Wylie, Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America . Published 2019
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"hypothetical trade war with China or Mexico meant the loss of American jobs and profits, people primed with anger would tolerate that domestic economic damage"
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PUBLISHED YEAR 2019
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"the Plot to Break America" - TITLE OF THE GOD DAMN BOOK!
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"they could use a trade war to punish immigrant groups"
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And if you reply to me on this posting on Lemmy, and don't show proof and evidence of YOU PERSONALLY QUOTING this book from 2019.... !!! ENOUGH BULLSHIT, people IGNORED this BOOK, they did not put it in the face of MAGA as a form of cult deprogramming - and it was at the public library in 2019!
