Their worldview is defined by cognitive dissonance. Logic doesn’t work on them.
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Armand1@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Do people voting Reform ever wonder why the ultra rich put all their money behind Reform and Restore?
Do they not see that if the group of people who hoard all of the wealth to the detriment of voters, its probably so they can hoard more wealth, therefore making their conditions worse?
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 6 days ago
horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
I think this is a dangerous view to hold. It feels nice to tarnish them like this but it leaves open the risk of never actually allowing us to understand their motives.
A large swathe of the media did this with Brexit, and those dragons were never put back into their cage.
thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 6 days ago
I think your view is the dangerous one.
It has been proved over and over, UK and overseas, that the non-millionaires/not wealthy people voting for right wing populists (MAGA, Reform, AfD, RN) are doing so for emotional not logical reasons. You can’t argue people out of a position they didnt use logic to get to.
So, are they real reasons underpinning their support, of course, in broad brush strokes it’s a combination of fear, a feeling they’ve been treated poorly, a certain amount of entitlement.
The problem with that is that a group of people are promising to fix all their problems at no cost to them (a patently false promise).
So yes, being realistic isn’t “tarnishing them” - if you don’t correctly diagnose the disease you can’t cure it.
The big problem is those who should pay the price for fixing the problems they caused (the Epstein class) have the wealth to divert attention away from them having caused the problem and its fixes
horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
It has been proved over and over, UK and overseas, that the non-millionaires/not wealthy people voting for right wing populists (MAGA, Reform, AfD, RN) are doing so for emotional not logical reasons. You can’t argue people out of a position they didnt use logic to get to.
This implies that everyone else used logic to arrive at their points of view. I don’t believe this is true for the most part. I think it is almost impossible to make a logical political choice given the complexity of the world we inhabit.
To argue that your position is grounded in logic whilst the ‘other’ group is ground in emotion is an ego-inflating fantasy. You are more like the reform voters than you would like you believe.
horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
I think they do see it, but they see themselves as realists; some of them see it as refreshing that the corruption of democracy is out in the open rather than being hidden.
sirico@feddit.uk 6 days ago
But until it’s too late, they get to feel a semblance of power and control in their insecure fear led lives…
echodot@feddit.uk 5 days ago
Do people voting Reform ever wonder
Nope, not about anything. I’ve talked to them, they haven’t got a clue how anything in government works, but they believe Farage when he tells them that they should be angry about it.
thehatfox@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Sole of the Reform supporters I’ve come across see it as a sign of success. They see more donations to “their team” as positive regardless of where the money comes from or what strings are attached to it.