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Recently published in Journal of Social and Political Psychology by Thomas F. Pettigrew seeks to understand the psychological profile of Trump supporters:
The Trump movement is not singular within the United States (the Know Nothing movement in the 1850s, the Wallace movement in the 1960s, and the more recent Tea Party Movement). Moreover, other democracies have seen similar movements (e.g., Austria's Freedom Party, Belgium's Vlaams Blok, France's National Front, Germany's Alternative for Germany Party (AfD), and Britain's U.K. Independence Party (UKIP).
In virtually all these cases, the tinder especially involved male nativists and populists who were less educated than the general population. But this core was joined by other types of voters as well. Five highly interrelated characteristics stand out that are central to a social psychological analysis – authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, outgroup prejudice, the absence of intergroup contact and relative deprivation.No one factor describes Trump's supporters. But an array of factors – many of them reflecting five major social psychological phenomena can help to account for this extraordinary political event: authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, prejudice, relative deprivation, and intergroup contact.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Thursday December 07 2017, @02:41PM (2 children)
At the time I really wanted Elizabeth Warren to run, because she was smart and capable and would have cut Trump or whoever won the Republican nomination to ribbons. Bernie Sanders was a lesser choice for me, but he still would have been fine. Either of them would have run away with the election because they would have taken away Trump's relative edge with bread-and-butter voters.
Now I have a much different, much lesser opinion of Warren and a much greater opinion of Bernie.
But thanks to the hacks of Leon Panetta's email and Donna Brazile's revelations about the DNC, it has been proven that neither Warren nor Bernie would have had a chance against Hillary's corruption of the process. That game was rigged from the start and is still rigged. The Democratic Party is a zombie, brain-dead and incapable of changing direction or doing anything positive.
FWIW the Republican Party is no less a catastrophe. They're in the middle of their own years-long civil war, and their house is burning down, too. So the country must not continue with the fiction that one party is good, and the other bad.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday December 07 2017, @03:35PM (1 child)
I don't know anything about Warren (I'm Canadian, and only really followed things about Bernie because he seemed to be less 'yucky' and more for the people than Hill/Don).
I'd like to see Bernie form his own party (unless he can run instead of Hillary) with the slogan "We don't fucking suck like the 2 major parties".
Maybe he'd pull it off, lol.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday December 07 2017, @06:52PM
You're not kidding. It wouldn't take much. "The Independent Party: We're not Lizard People." "Earth: We Live Here, Too." "We are not Re-animated Clones of Hitler. Promise."
Washington DC delenda est.