If you’ve ever noticed that political campaigns end up sounding identical when you boil them down, this video explains why.
During campaign season it’s easy to block out the speeches and commercials of the opposing side, but sometimes if you stop to listen they sound eerily like your favorite candidate.
Learn to Liberty has created this video to explain why that’s the case: it’s all about voter distribution in the two party system.
Have you experienced this as a voter, whether in the previous presidential election or otherwise? How did you wade the murky water to decide who to truly vote for?
[Via: Learn to Liberty on YouTube]
It seems to me that politicians really understand the Forer effect. Express your position in a vague and ambivalent enough manner and everyone will be able to see what they want to see in you. Terms like ‘freedom’, ‘justice’, ‘equality’, ‘liberty’, etc. are great for this: we all tend to see very favourable things in them but their actual meaning and content is typically radically unspecified.