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David Shor
@davidshor
Incredibly cool use of data science to code open ended responses asking what a voter’s ideal party would focus on - non-ideological appeals to affordability and the economy outnumbered both left and right wing positions substantially
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G Elliott Morris
@gelliottmorris
Good morning. I've got a banger new post out today that develops a new method for placing voters on the left-right ideological spectrum, and adds a new, "non-ideological"/affordability axis to usual way we chart & think about US voters (esp swing voters). gelliottmorris.com/p/not-just-lef
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Christmas Johan Liebert
@SoCal_Johan
People legitimately get depressed when they can't afford to keep up with the joneses, the bias of economism is real, as they need those TVs in every room and brand new truck or they feel themselves as failures even when it ends up costing them multiple times over with debt
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David S Chang
@dschan02
Almost everyone wants affordability. Almost no one agrees on what policies would result in affordability. Thus it's not a viable political movement.
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Aintropy 🔰
@Aintropy
And yet, the uniparty will give away the store to tiny special interests because they think the public won't notice. The backlash to Argentine beef imports was horrifying!
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neutrinomoon
@neutrinomoon
Funny, other ppl are thinking like this lately. Me, for one. Little thread with an idea...
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neutrinomoon
@neutrinomoon
Replying to @atrembath
1/ Late to this. IMO the political spectrum has outlived its utility, I believe because of the increasing availability of information and ease of communication. "Conservative" has always been hard to pinpoint. "Liberal" has too many meanings already. ->
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Kevin Briggs
@KevinBriggs1776
Now ask them how they want to achieve those goals, how do they want to cut the $38 trillion debt that we're spending over $1 trillion in debt interest payments?
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CiroccoDruid
@stillnotking75
The government can only "make things affordable" by doing as little as possible (e.g. enforcing contracts), but voters never want to hear this and a substantial number are incapable of understanding it
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