Re:Ugly Gerry – Gerrymandering font
by crazygringo on Thursday January 26, 2023 @12:06PM
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You're both right, in a sense.
Political science supports the fact that most of the issues voters care about the most are actually national culture-war issues.
It also supports the idea that most of the issues that actually affect voter's day-to-day lives are state/local.
In other words, according to mainstream political science thought, voters don't care enough about what they "ought" to be caring about.
Of course, this is also placing a value judgment that the material things that affect voters lives (local zoning and property taxes, for instance) are more important than the cultural/moral things (like how race is taught in schools). And when you start telling people that what's actually important to them isn't what they think is important, you're trying to "rewrite" their values...
Political science supports the fact that most of the issues voters care about the most are actually national culture-war issues.
It also supports the idea that most of the issues that actually affect voter's day-to-day lives are state/local.
In other words, according to mainstream political science thought, voters don't care enough about what they "ought" to be caring about.
Of course, this is also placing a value judgment that the material things that affect voters lives (local zoning and property taxes, for instance) are more important than the cultural/moral things (like how race is taught in schools). And when you start telling people that what's actually important to them isn't what they think is important, you're trying to "rewrite" their values...