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Originally Posted by fotze2
Weird that righty and lefty folks on twitter are uniting. Not just righties saying trumps garbage or lefties admitting our environmental nonsense helped get us here.
Maybe the Trump is the grinch and he will finally bring us together! Our hearts grew three sizes yesterday. Haha.
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It's a well studied phenomenon in social psychology.
Competing outgroups will pretty reliably set aside differences when pressed by a larger threat that affects both groups.
This has happened countless times throughout history. Usually in times of war.
Thankfully this is just an economic war. But it's cool to see the effect is the same.
My righty family members have walked back their prior support of a Trump presidency too. Funny how when a situation can affect you directly you approach it through a very different lens (aka take off the goof goggles).
The predictability of people brings me both a sense of certainty but also makes me sad. Each generation seems to have to re-learn the same mistakes prior generators made and very sternly forewarned us of.