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GOP Echo Chamber Fuels Anti-ObamaCare Rage, Shutdown
IBD ^ | 10/2/2013 | Cass Sunstein

Posted on 10/03/2013 8:43:26 AM PDT by rktman

Two factors best explain the U.S. government shutdown. The first involves information, or what people think they know. The second involves incentives, or what motivates our elected representatives.

From decades of empirical research, we know that when like-minded people speak with one another, they tend to become more extreme, more confident and more unified — the phenomenon known as group polarization.

One reason involves the spread of information within echo chambers. If you're in a group whose members think the Affordable Care Act is horrible, you'll hear many arguments to that effect and very few the other way.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: aca; ass; didiots; obamacare; shutdown
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To: Uncle Miltie

Cass Sunstein is an evil Ayn Rand/Orwell villain from central casting apparently.

Even his name sounds lie an Ayn Rand villain


21 posted on 10/03/2013 9:23:41 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: rktman

Sunstein is one of the MOST DANGEROUS of the Obama Cartel. He would deny us the right of speech on the internet, for example.


22 posted on 10/03/2013 9:25:06 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: rktman

The title indicates that the article has two purposes, one for each of two target audiences.

1) target liberals - convince them that opposition to nobamacare is really a gop partisan effort; rally the troops on the left

2) target conservatives - convince them that opposition to nobamacare is really a gop partisan effort; in truth, opposition to nobamacare is rooted in the people. People outright reject being forced to pay for something. The Republican establishment, which quietly supports nobamacare, is afraid only of losses of incumbents in upcoming elections. So they declare they want to change nobamacare into a Republican version of itself to make it “ok” or “better”. The “outsider” newbie Republicans fear that the people will reject them as fake and they won’t win reelection even with the worn-out establishment’s support. The people still have some influence, which keeps the gop from whipping out its rubberstamp and signing on to nobamacare.

Make no mistake, nobamacare is the brainchild of the new world order-controlled “healthcare” industry. It is simply a way to force every American to buy health insurance. This is why a Harvard (nwo) educated nwo operative like Sunstein would be producing propaganda such as this article.

Nobamacare is NOT a government takeover of healthcare.

It IS a tightening of control of healthcare by the healthcare monopoly, which is now able to use the government to enforce that everyone pay for healthcare on a continuing basis whether they need any services or not.

The people who have low-paying or no jobs and thus do not have employer-arranged health insurance... that bugged the healthcare monopoly. Those dang poor folks are not paying the monopoly on a weekly basis. Make the government make them pay ! The Democrat and Republican parties are managed by NWO. They put on a show for us sheeple, while the laws they passed for the past 100 years have slowly locked the sheeple in chains.


23 posted on 10/03/2013 9:26:26 AM PDT by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: rktman
Now there is an answer to the monopoly that the New York Times echo chamber has enjoyed.

Diversity is good, isn't it?

24 posted on 10/03/2013 9:27:07 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Religious faith in government is far crazier than religious faith in God.)
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To: rktman

Who is echoing in the GOP chamber? Certainly not the media.


25 posted on 10/03/2013 9:27:58 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (My PV2 is my hero.)
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To: Salgak
Cass Sunstein is a guy. . .

Ye gods, I think that's twice in two days. I'll work that out of my fingers yet. Thanks.

OTOH, are you SURE? :-)

26 posted on 10/03/2013 10:14:15 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: rktman

Cass Sunstein, what a commie


27 posted on 10/03/2013 11:31:12 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: rktman

Get a rope for that thug.


28 posted on 10/03/2013 12:40:56 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: rktman; DJ MacWoW; skeeter; Billthedrill; dirtboy; Da Coyote; shoff; WashingtonSource; RitaOK; ...
This commie wrote this book during Bush's administration. Apparently dissent is no longer needed.

Why societies need dissent
by Cass R. Sunstein
Harvard University Press, 2003
Cloth: 978-0-674-01268-4

ABOUT THIS BOOK | BUY THIS BOOK
ABOUT THIS BOOK

In this timely book, Cass R. Sunstein shows that organizations and nations are far more likely to prosper if they welcome dissent and promote openness. Attacking "political correctness" in all forms, Sunstein demonstrates that corporations, legislatures, even presidents are likely to blunder if they do not cultivate a culture of candor and disclosure. He shows that unjustified extremism, including violence and terrorism, often results from failure to tolerate dissenting views. The tragedy is that blunders and cruelties could be avoided if people spoke out. From here....


29 posted on 10/03/2013 4:39:57 PM PDT by raybbr (I weep over my sons' future in this Godforsaken country.)
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To: raybbr

“Dissent for me, but not for thee.” Perspective changes when you come into possession of a whip hand. Not everyone is up to it.


30 posted on 10/03/2013 4:51:25 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: raybbr

“Dissent is patriotic” when someone else is in office the same way gays only wanted some tolerance until they got power.


31 posted on 10/03/2013 5:43:41 PM PDT by GeronL
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