This is a partisanship tax. Though pro-TERF/anti-cops-killing-black-men is a philosophically coherent position, it is hard to meaningfully express it through things like voting. To exercise agency rather than merely express a pointless opinion, you have to pick a side.
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To realistically assess "the worst that could happen to the most vulnerable people who could be affected by your decision" you have to have curiosity about the world beyond your borders. Because your tax dollars can buy airplanes that can bomb any point on the planet.
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The great risk of parochialism in globally consequential decision processes is the "one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic" effect. Great mindset for purely local decisions with no spillover effects. Terrible when you are structurally complicit in global ones.
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There aren't many ways to counterprogram parochialism in your thinking. It's not a question of intelligence, but input. The 3 known ways are education, travel, and seeking out interactions with people very unlike yourself. All three are driven by curiosity/openness to experience
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Guess what kind of people resist all 3 impulses? Guess how they act politically? In my processing, the greatest worst-case risk is simply having parochial people, contemptuous of the entire world beyond their horizons, making globally decisions consequential decisions.
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This is it! Not active racism or sexism, they often just don't care about groups whose lived experience is unlike their own. They may even deny there are such groups, believing such groups claim victimhood for special advantage. Most interested only in upside for them.
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Problem right now is the dems are not showing these voters any upside.
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