If critical thinkers, more open to change thinkers, are a minority and real effective change cannot generally happen within a democracy as most people are conservative, less open to change, then what is to be done? Are we doomed to forever twist around a conservative center? Is this why history seems like a broken record repeating itself over and over? The following is from an article from Max Borowitz – ‘Why do progressives keep losing?’ Link below.
Knowing how open voters are to new experiences is the skeleton key to American politics in 2020.
To (over) simplify, openness measures your:
- Comfort with things that are foreign or different from what you are comfortable with
- Willingness to overturn existing structures and norms
- Desire to explore new hobbies or interests
People with high-openness:
- Like foreign cuisines
- Are more comfortable with diversity
- Are less religious
- Pursue higher education disproportionately
- Think that Coffee Thyme is art
People with low-openness
- Avoid new or unknown cuisines
- Are turned off by symbols of diversity and cultural pluralism or change
- Are more religious
- Are less interested in higher education
- Think that Coffee Thyme is not art
A person’s openness is about that person’s view of change. It is not a proxy for moral virtue. People who are low-openness can be moral or immoral, just as people with high-openness can be. People with low-openness are probably different from you but do not deserve your condescension.
- 20% of Americans are high openness
- 40% are medium openness
- 40% are low openness
From –
https://medium.com/@maxborowitz/why-do-progressives-keep-losing-195381096132
So, where are we then? Do I walk away? Can I walk away? Do I wait for the thumping of jackboots at my door? Do I cower or do I resist? Am I at the mercy of low-openness people controlled by a few megalomaniacs? Is this the human natural state of being?