Comments by "Nattygsbord" (@nattygsbord) on "IL-76 Update, What Motivates Trump Supporters, Senate Legislation, Senate Com. Votes to Seize Assets" video.

  1. I am a bit skeptical of polls. I mean in my own country do both leftwing and rightwing voters rank the economy as important in polls. But in the end of the day is that not the issue that most people seem to care about that much. They have not read up much about economics - not even the basics. They do rarely ever make any facebook posts about it. And it is common that even people that are deeply interested in politics will yawn if you start to talk about the economy. So I guess that people just say they care about the economy in opinion polls, perhaps just because they wanna think of themselves as responsible citizens, sophisticated, and all that. But in the end of the day is it identity politics and such trivial issues that people spend hours on debating and researching. They shout on the other side and gets upset. The traffic on social media is constantly flowing. And I think to myself, if all those hours spent on this was spent on studying economics instead, then we would have the most economically enlightened population in history. But I guess that people feel too dumb to understand economics, so they do not even try to read anything to understand it. So the polls are wrong I think. The economy is not that important. People care about many trivial issues instead. And they get angry issues like identity politics, or a vaccine against a disease with a 2% mortality rate, or some silly "freedom issue" like smoking pot or abolish conscription. Indeed I think neither leftwingers or rightwingers care that much about the economy, and they care much identity politics instead. I do however believe that polls are correct when they say that immigration and gun laws are important for republican voters. Those are not trivial, even if personally do not rank their importance on top 5 priority list. But it is okay have different priorities.
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