25 Nisan 2015, Cumartesi
saat: 20:43
Politics isn't about who you love. It's about who you fear:
"Negative partisanship develops when the partisan identities of voters are strongly related to other salient social and political characteristics. When this happens, supporters of each party perceive supporters of the opposing party as very different from themselves in terms of their social characteristics and fundamental values. As a result, voters tend to hold very negative opinions of the opposing party’s leaders and supporters, prefer not to associate with those who support the opposing party and are less likely to consider voting for candidates from the opposing party." In the end, "regardless of the strength of their attachment to their own party, the more voters dislike the opposing party, the greater the probability that they will vote consistently for their own party’s candidates." (Abramowitz and Webster, 2015)
And if you think political scientists are just a bunch of depressing crowd, here is a real world post from Tumblr that got thousands of notes, which has basically the same idea:
Saying “I'm voting for Hillary” does not mean “i condone everything she’s done” it really means that not voting for her would basically be supporting her opponents WHO ARE 5 BILLION TIMES WORSE
If you choose not to vote in the next election because you don’t agree with Hillary 100%, you’re not helping anyone but the nasty republican running against her
Now that the elections are coming up, it's worth saying that a bit more clearly: What parties need to do to keep you loyal isn't make you inspired. Rather, they need to make you scared.
Isn't it just awesome?
