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    5 months ago

    I’m starting to suspect that the arguments seem as nauseam because I’m trying to reason people out of a decision they didn’t reason themselves into - i.e. they’re voting emotionally, and not logically. Inconvenient questions get ignored, and we’re left with very surface level arguments.

    I particularly saw some users comments reflected in this excerpt in the retrospective voting article you shared:

    In his classic book “The Responsible Electorate,” the late Harvard University political scientist V.O. Key Jr. suggests that judging a president’s or his party’s performance in office presents a perfect opportunity for the voter to play “rational God of vengeance or reward.”

    Perhaps they’re voting this way to try and recapture efficacy in a world where they feel they have very little.