Kepler
Si certus es dubita
This is really interesting. Go to about the 50 minute mark. There are studies which suggest that rhetoric like white replacement theory or anti-Semitic or misogynistic rhetoric, even when rejected, condition respondents to give farther right opinions on other issues. For example, by starting with the framing of America being majority minority in 2040, you get the average voter who does not agree with white replacement theory to doubt climate change more, be more anti-immigrant, be for larger defense budgets and lower social spending.
So these are basically stalking horses. They don't matter in of themselves, but they prime the audience to move into a paranoid mindset which is then vulnerable to right wing authoritarianism.
So these are basically stalking horses. They don't matter in of themselves, but they prime the audience to move into a paranoid mindset which is then vulnerable to right wing authoritarianism.