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posted by janrinok on Sunday January 16 2022, @10:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the By-the-inch,-it's-a-cinch-but-a-mile-takes-a-while dept.

We've previously discussed ( https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=21/12/11/1847236 ) how it becomes impossible to reverse the polarization of a community once their differences become too great, and how that plays out both here at SN and in the wider world. Science Blog has a piece ( https://scienceblog.com/527745/computer-model-seeks-to-explain-the-spread-of-misinformation-and-suggest-counter-measures/ ) about a PLOS paper titled "Cognitive cascades: How to model (and potentially counter) the spread of fake news" ( https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0261811 ) which uses an interesting computer model to explore how this actually happens.

The model demonstrated that if the new information is too much at odds with a person's existing belief, it will be ignored. Furthermore, if that belief is connected with the person's identity, their current belief will be strengthened as a defense against cognitive dissonance. Interestingly, though, a succession of new information that gradually nudge the person to adjust their beliefs can, over time, cause the person to adopt a belief that is very different from the one they started with. This sounds like how psy-ops manipulate targets to accept extreme views.

What was the gradual change of ideas that have led national political parties to be ever more different from one another, and who fed them those messages?


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  • (Score: 0, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 16 2022, @07:16PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 16 2022, @07:16PM (#1213208)

    > It's worth remembering, with the Martin Luther King holiday tomorrow, that MLK was a Republican.

    It's also worth remembering that the parties "switched" at some point in past, causing no end of confusion to right-wing blowhards from that date on. So confusing for them.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 16 2022, @07:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 16 2022, @07:47PM (#1213220)

    "I don't think the Republican party is a party full of the almighty God nor is the Democratic party. They both have weaknesses ... And I'm not inextricably bound to either party."[380] King did praise Democratic Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois as being the "greatest of all senators" because of his fierce advocacy for civil rights causes over the years."

    wikipedia

    So he wasn't much affiliated with R or D, just more FUD from Republicans that don't want to be the party of racist fascists. Well, they don't want to admit to it anyway, though surely some truly don't like the racist fascism.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 17 2022, @04:22PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 17 2022, @04:22PM (#1213404)

    Why is that nonsense moderated as 'informative'? It's a crock of shit, it always has been a crock of shit. "We'll have those niggers voting for us for the next 200 years." There was no switcheroo, the Dems were using blacks then, and they are using blacks now. It's far past time people woke up and understood that Dems don't care for anyone, they care about POWER!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 17 2022, @11:06PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 17 2022, @11:06PM (#1213489)

      Viciously allowing gay marriage, equality, voting rights. Those bastards!

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 19 2022, @05:57AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 19 2022, @05:57AM (#1213789)

        "We'll have those niggers queers voting for us for the next 200 years."