alt Hacker NewsSo that's the interesting thing about it; he gets the votes from it, so apparently many people agree with him? Only in public nobody seems to agree with him? How is that possible?
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Most of his voters have no idea what his campaign or promises are, and that's intentional, see mexican voters apparently surprised by his anti-mexican stance now.
This is representative of the dichotomy we face within society, in that we rarely associate with people who have different opinions than us, even when we think that we do regularly. It is the paradox of our social circles that overlap but never interact.
>Only in public nobody seems to agree with him
What? In my experience his supporters literally never shut up about how they are the silent majority. The irony seems entirely lost on them.
The trick is inside or brains. We’re having trouble dealing with detailed percentage breakdowns and differentiating between groups of people.
Instead we think of “the average person” and project that on everyone.
You looked at the small libertarian interest group, and based on that projected how everyone is. Now you look at hacker news and you’re projecting how everyone is. This projection is where our reasoning fails.
>Only in public nobody seems to agree with him? How is that possible?
Societal taboos for example can create a division like this. You can see this divide between truly anonymous forums vs moderated conversations online.