The cause of Kamala Harris’s disastrous failure in the 2024 presidential election will forever be debated, but there are good reasons to believe the Israeli genocide in Gaza played a significant role.
tragedy-burnout has lots of people walking away from the trackswitch of the trolley problem
even though the consequences are identical between mindfully choosing to not touch the track switch and being too frozen with panic/dread/exhaustion/apathy to touch the track switch, the psychological processes behind it are very different.
People who are demoralized are less likely–hell, they’re less CAPABLE–of standing up to intervene against evil.
tragedy-burnout has lots of people walking away from the trackswitch of the trolley problem
even though the consequences are identical between mindfully choosing to not touch the track switch and being too frozen with panic/dread/exhaustion/apathy to touch the track switch, the psychological processes behind it are very different.
People who are demoralized are less likely–hell, they’re less CAPABLE–of standing up to intervene against evil.