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"Well, they did sign up for this actually." Trump on voters concern for higher living costs (lemmy.ml)

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When ABC News' Terry Moran asked Pres. Donald Trump to respond to voters who may be concerned that rising costs are not what they "signed up for," Trump responded: "Well, they did sign up for this actually."

https://xcancel.com/ABC/status/1917379788408312308

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

More generally, it's in-group vs out-group. For many people, the in-group is "white men" and the out-group is "everyone else". But this behavior is pretty baked into humans. We'll form stupid groups over anything. I was reading a book about how people change their minds, and it talked about some experiments they did. Like, they gave kids at a summer camp different colored shirts, and sure enough they formed separate groups. They had to stop the experiment when one group tried to burn down the cabin of the other group.

I don't know how to fix this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The in-group is the working class and the out-group is the wealthy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

If you know a way to get from here to there, please share. At my old job I tried to radicalize my coworkers so they'd understand our interests align with each other more than ownership. I had some success.