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11/08/24 6:15 PM

#501034 RE: zab #501027

Because B402 sees equalities and inequalities as one-sided. Because even though Republicans and conservative Democrats blocked many progressive Democrat initiatives it's still all the Democrat's fault. Because he will not accept the fact that relatively few very progressive Democrats are able to get elected because the American god-loving, most Christian western country in the world, is basically much more conservative than not. Because he will not recognize that the socialist bogeyman of American conservatives in one of the most potent tactics of the GOP. And because he will not consider the extremes of Republican gerrymandering.

"Why do you always give the Republicans a pass on everything?"

Because he only feels self-satisfied when he is whining about how stupid Democrats are even though Democrats work much more for the good of those he professes to care for than the GOP does. Because B402 is so lazily one-eyed he doesn't even consider why so many voters, either are so fed up with politics they don't vote, or why so many vote against their own interests. Because he himself is so addicted to the self-gratification he gets in expressing his moral outrage:

Punishment/revenge. The psychology of punishment is key to why
people vote against their own interests, says an Oxford neuroscientist

[...]
Crockett’s experiments have worrying implications. Firstly, her brain imaging studies .. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23426678 .. show that the act of punishing engages the part of the brain that signals reward. It’s the same brain area that’s hijacked by addictive drugs. “Certainly the raw ingredients are there, behaviorally and neurally, for expressing moral outrage to have an addictive quality,” says Crockett.

She also found that .. https://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/publications/505751 .. people often justify their actions by saying they were trying to teach a moral lesson, rather than because the act of punishing feels good. (This remains true even when a punishment is carried out in secret, and the recipient will never know of their punishment to absorb its lesson.) In retrospect, we tend to assign a moral motive to actions that are essentially vengeance.

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