If you've made it through 2018 and don't see the daily onslaught of Trumpian power consolidations and fuckery, it's either because your dishonest or choose not to or because you lack the background knowledge. I'll assume the latter. Here are some things to get you started.
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Replying to @generativist @Kamuela
This book is a good recent to how people actually process and reexpress political information. Concisely: We're rationalizers not rational. https://www.amazon.com/Rationalizing-Cambridge-Studies-Political-Psychology/dp/052117614X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1539260425&sr=8-1&keywords=rationalizing+voter …
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Replying to @generativist @Kamuela
Paxton's the Anatomy of Fascism should be required reading at this point for everyone. It might as well come with a little red dot that says "you are here," at one of the early-to-middling stages. https://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Fascism-Robert-Paxton/dp/1400033918/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1539260748&sr=8-1&keywords=fascism+robert …
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Replying to @generativist @Kamuela
Simon's book is a classic in my field. It's good for any of the social complexity sciences (and it's well written). But, it will help you think about things more systemically. https://www.amazon.com/Sciences-Artificial-Herbert-Simon/dp/0262691914/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1539260832&sr=8-1&keywords=sciences+of+the+artificial …
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Replying to @generativist @Kamuela
Combined, the New Jim Crow is a good introduction to how carceral state -- one of those things people get "emotional about" creates an enduring lower tier of citizens. https://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1539261206&sr=8-1&keywords=new+jim+crow …
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Replying to @generativist @Kamuela
Once your done with these probably check out something about affective neuroscience. The idea of facts and logic as a separate domain of emotions is such hopelessly naive it's a major blindspot. But, this should get you started on forging some eyes.
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Replying to @generativist @Kamuela
(The last is one blindspot I had for most of my life. "Why are these people emotional, I'm not!" Then, I realized I didn't have a reason to be, and they did.)
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Contemporary parties are bad. There are compelling arguments which conclude this country's political system can never escape from the two-party structure -- it's like a stochastic gravity well. I don't think bidirectional anger is bad. There's a lot of bullshit.
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