▲ 43 ▼ Liberals and conservatives see different victims: Study finds political battles stem from opposing views on who is vulnerable to harm (www.buffalo.edu) submitted 6 days ago by beep@piefed.world to c/science@lemmy.world 22 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/scientificarticles/p/1364871/liberals-and-conservatives-see-different-victims-study-finds-political-battles-stem-from Original Study.
[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 1 point 5 days ago (1 child) Most of the voting base isn't rich though permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] essell@lemmy.world 1 point 5 days ago There's a few ways around that. You either convince people that they are rich enough for this stuff to matter to them, or that they will be one day, or that they're voting in the sense of fairness, even if they're not directly impacted. Although most of the times these days, the strategy is to make people afraid of progressive politics. It will do them harm personally. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] essell@lemmy.world 1 point 5 days ago There's a few ways around that. You either convince people that they are rich enough for this stuff to matter to them, or that they will be one day, or that they're voting in the sense of fairness, even if they're not directly impacted. Although most of the times these days, the strategy is to make people afraid of progressive politics. It will do them harm personally. permalink fedilink source parent