it's partly why conservatives are so stupid

anything they recommend on economics is bad

i've read it all. if you really care about economics, read Minsky

I'd actually help in compiling a reading list for non-US people like myself who want to seriously get into US politics.

Read that book i linked or watch some of his talks

Ya, I saved it.

That's at the root of so much, it's new and freh

fresh

Kill All Normies by angela nagle

these are assuming culture is upstream view, which i think is accurate in this case

Specifically about trump- Fear by Bob Woodward

Ayn Rand will teach you anything Ben Shapiro doesn't cover

I'm certain

Which is an in depth look into his White House and how it functions

if you want specific polticial TACTICS, thats more complicated

Cosby is joking

yea that's a good one

You gotta look beyond Trump though, these issues are way deeper

@Sh0t I think you might be getting too in depth

For a survey of things

But idk

I think it's the issue o fwhether you want to analyze TRUMP or his supporters

Don't worry, Vlad knows me and my antics - I wouldn't recommend Ben Shapiro or Ayn Rand to impressionable children or anything like that... <:MadClown:583243630240727061>

there was another great book by a berkeley prof tha went into Louisana to study red state voters

Yes, I know he is joking.

cant rememebr the name but it was pretty damn good

Not that I mind checking out conservatives.

Metzl asks the question why do these people keep voting against their own interests

e.g., healthcare

in areas that clearly need it, they keep votign against it(functionally)

the backwoods of tenn, etc

Found it: https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Berkeley-sociologist-crosses-over-to-Trump-s-11160689.php

@Deleted User what book would you recommend to understand YOUR world view?

since studying conservatives gets boring

Oh yea, Horschild's husband is the founder of Mother Jones

```Hochschild left her liberal bubble — where she lives with her husband, author and Mother Jones magazine co-founder Adam Hochschild, and where, until recently, she taught sociology at UC Berkeley — to spend five years on and off in the ardently right-wing Louisiana bayou country, where God, guns and big oil rule. ```

```And yet, as Hochschild points out, red states like Louisiana, which ranks 49th in overall health, are desperately dependent on federal money, which accounts for 44 percent of its yearly budget.```
```“They’re very aware of the red-state paradox,” Hochschild told me, sitting in the living room of her Berkeley hills home. “Mike said to me, ‘We’re embarrassed by it.’”```

Embarassed by it, yet...

Lol yeah they are so "embarrassed"...

Bannon makes it clear in his interviews that the Trump campaign was cynical as fuck, they were just mining the sentiment

Trump's actions reinforce it. to pretend he's "real" is a joke