In contemporary Western politics, the party out of power…

In contemporary Western politics, the party out of power drastically exaggerates all negative trends while denying all positive developments, in hopes of creating voter anger and getting back into power.

— from Takeoff Into Chaos · Progresss Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse by Gregg Esaterbrook

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We are primed to prefer bad news and to feel it as more urgent than it actually is. The party out of power exaggerates every negative trend and denies every positive one to harvest your anger, and a whole industry has grown skilled at discovering new categories of grievance. The cruel irony is that all this noise about small, vivid risks actually leaves us worse at noticing the large, quiet ones that matter. — Takeoff Into Chaos

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