So, at any given moment in time, one’s frame of mind not only influences, but is the ultimate controller of one’s current beliefs and subsequent actions based on those beliefs. That sounds right to me. Would you agree with that? If not, start here by making your case against that claim. Give your reasoning.
Now, let’s turn to politics. When it comes to our political views, let’s follow the breadcrumbs that lay the path to how and why people vote as they do.
A few weeks ago, Axios came up with an interesting chart that categorizes the current major political influences on our voting frames of mind:
Task 1: Give a one-sentence or even a one-word description of each of these influential categories, the way you see them. Do you see any one category as being the most influential of all, on the populace-at-large?
Task 2: What category(ies) do you belong to? And if more than one, which one do you believe is in ultimate control of you, when casting your vote? Why?
Task 2a: If none, if you don’t believe your voting is influenced by any of these categories, what does influence you? “Just the facts, ma’am,” you may say? Okay, but where/who provides you with such facts?
(by PrimalSoup)
