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applegrove

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3. Krugman should read this book:

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Sep 8, 2021, 12:53 AM

Sep 2021

https://www.amazon.ca/Enchanted-America-Intuition-Reason-Politics/dp/022657850X

financial anxiety results in people stopping using reason and starting to think through an more emotional lens. Then republicans could really manipulate them. There is regression analysis to this effect. First came the financial anxiety over 20 or 40 years and then the racism and MAGA cult.

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