If I pretended to hold just a third of the political positions I hold, any one of those thirds would probably have me at 3 times the followers from political Twitter.
I wonder if this explains the dismal quality of political Twitter somewhat. Are people really just pretending?
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I'm not suggesting my positions are Good and True, but I wonder why so many people have such predictable and limited opinions.
On some level, it feels like they can't possibly be real. People almost never hit this level of declared internal consistency in other areas of life.
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people who care enough to primarily tweet about politics probably do have very formed and fairly consistent beliefs. It's important to them, if it wasn't, politics wouldn't be their main thing.
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That is my impression of *some* of them, for sure, but is not exactly the sort of demographic I was referring to.