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A few sociological and biological elements of the "election denier" subculture:
1. the Trump base was Celtic (and Border Reiver) appalachians, a clannish gene pool and social form based on honor systems and fealty oaths that originated as a historically marginalized population that has been holding grudges for at least 500 yea…
A few sociological and biological elements of the "election denier" subculture:
1. the Trump base was Celtic (and Border Reiver) appalachians, a clannish gene pool and social form based on honor systems and fealty oaths that originated as a historically marginalized population that has been holding grudges for at least 500 years, most recently neoconfederates that have been festering in resentment since the Civil War.
2. because that base is a cultural minority that will never be able to dominate US politics, there is a massive level of cognitive dissonance, which creates a need for emotive narratives that are a balm to the wounded "pagan" psyche.
Election denialism is the main form of balm at the moment.
It is not RATIONAL or OBJECTIVE because cold, systematic logic and fact-based arguments are not capable of being emotional balms (on the contrary).
The purpose of election denialism is to focus the outrage that arises from the political impotence of the celtic-appalachian and other rural-working-class-populist gene pools.
None of that would be of much importance except that the mainstream culture is disintegrating due to technology disruption, like the Roman empire collapsing, so the "barbarians" sense an opportunity to crash the gates of the weakened empire.
In other words, the increasing ILLIBERALISM, dysfunction and irrationalism of the "establishment" and the "woke left" is a magnet pulling the "barbarians" toward the gates.
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A few sociological and biological elements of the "election denier" subculture:
1. the Trump base was Celtic (and Border Reiver) appalachians, a clannish gene pool and social form based on honor systems and fealty oaths that originated as a historically marginalized population that has been holding grudges for at least 500 years, most recently neoconfederates that have been festering in resentment since the Civil War.
2. because that base is a cultural minority that will never be able to dominate US politics, there is a massive level of cognitive dissonance, which creates a need for emotive narratives that are a balm to the wounded "pagan" psyche.
Election denialism is the main form of balm at the moment.
It is not RATIONAL or OBJECTIVE because cold, systematic logic and fact-based arguments are not capable of being emotional balms (on the contrary).
The purpose of election denialism is to focus the outrage that arises from the political impotence of the celtic-appalachian and other rural-working-class-populist gene pools.
https://medium.com/s/balkanized-america/the-11-nations-of-america-as-told-by-dna-f283d4c58483
None of that would be of much importance except that the mainstream culture is disintegrating due to technology disruption, like the Roman empire collapsing, so the "barbarians" sense an opportunity to crash the gates of the weakened empire.
In other words, the increasing ILLIBERALISM, dysfunction and irrationalism of the "establishment" and the "woke left" is a magnet pulling the "barbarians" toward the gates.