People are guided in their voting choices by their underlying belief systems. Assuming that most people’s guides are kindly motivated, let’s assume that these guides are angels. What would be the difference, though, between a good Left bending angel politically versus one on the Right?
Billionaires, even though there are relatively few of them, are accumulating more and more wealth at the expense of the “little people” all 7 billion of them. They are increasingly getting involved politically for no good reason except to become trillionaires. Mother Earth is not pleased.
The intelligence of people who have a lot of it, maybe too much, is often applied in ways that sacrifice empathy. A case in point, the scientists of Los Alamos, who created the atom bomb. Another, the political scientists who created Project 2025.
Politics is a brain game in which the opposing players have to come up with strategies to persuade and convince voters. The game is played to a great extent with language wrapped up in signs and speeches. Social scientists understand more and more how to craft that language to be effective.
A fictional account of a restaurant owner who thinks much of his menu and disparages his competition. The tale is related through the person of a potential customer.
Bullying is widespread, even endemic, in American society. It’s a behavior that many of the powerful segments of society, including politicians, engage in.