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bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺 (bert_hubert@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 20:24:54 JST bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺

After every terrible election result we get 100s of pieces telling us exactly why this happened. But the supposed reasons are all different & conflicting. Below I argue we should take a leaf out of the UK's Home Intelligence WW2 project, where they fought propaganda & tracked "the vibes" to keep everyone on board with the war effort. We only have a few elections left to get to grips with populism, so we should stop the amateur hour sleuthing & figure things out:
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/we-dont-know-why-people-are-voting-like-that/
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  We don't know why people are voting like that, and the results are terrible - Bert Hubert's writings
  
  We get tons of articles and reports explaining why people just voted like that. However, even for specific elections, these explanations are wildly inconsistent and can’t all be true. In essence, we don’t understand it and we don’t get it. We reasonable people (who care about democracy, rule of law, human rights etc) stand no chance at all to improve things if we don’t understand what is going on, or where people are getting their (dis)information from.
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  Valerie Aurora (vaurora@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 20:49:45 JST Valerie Aurora
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  @bert_hubert 😂 I read the quoted summary of _The Unaccountability Machine_ in the footnotes, thought, "that's a really good summary, I will read the whole thing," clicked through, and found my post 🤦♀️
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    I read _The Unaccountability Machine_ by Dan Davies on the train yesterday and wow. Attempted summary: society is in crisis because our current systems of governance and feedback are unable to hear the signal that is the vast majority of people screaming, "My life is intolerable." This signal gets routed into any channel available: Brexit referendum, far-right parties, protests against masks or wind turbines or housing - anything to signal rebellion https://profilebooks.com/work/the-unaccountability-machine/
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  Valerie Aurora (vaurora@wandering.shop)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 11:34:08 JST Valerie Aurora
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  @bert_hubert nice!
  
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  bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺 (bert_hubert@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Nov-2024 11:34:09 JST bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺
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  @vaurora this happens a lot to me, most recently in a policy paper from the municipality of Amsterdam, https://amsterdam.raadsinformatie.nl/document/14694106/1 - somewhat proud about that ;-)
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