Republicans have done an amazing job of cultivating the single issue voter. They have identified issues that can be ratcheted up to levels of emotional agitation where logic and evidence cannot penetrate. Conservative think tanks have created a solid block of voters willing to vote against their own self interest with blind allegiance. Abortion, Guns and Immigration top the list today.
The majority of Americans whether they know it or not disagree with most of Republican ideology. But that single issue, the one that gets under your skin has been engineered by conservative think tanks to get you to vote against your own self interest over and over again.
Studying Cybersecurity for a few years has taught me some things. For one, the majority of cyber attacks start with social engineering attacks. The reason for this is they are the easiest kind and they are highly effective. In other words people are easy to fool with fear or flattery. And of course we don’t like to believe we can be fooled. But this is what happens.
We as a society are being engineered (fooled) to believe certain things about guns, reproductive rights and so on. We are being engineered not to trust each other. Eroding trust in your fellow Americans is how inequality can be maintained and expanded. Guns and abortion aren’t the real issues, divide and conquer are.