re: #28 Dopamine Fish

This is part of an old but very interesting Twitter thread describing the phenomenon known as the “Shirley Exception”, so coined because everyday rank-and-file conservatives such as my folks - who may otherwise present as decent and upstanding people - support odious and heinous policies because, “Surely the Good Guys (tm) who enforce the law will exercise compassion and mercy and make exceptions for the people who deserve it!”

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No one believes that nonsense today.

That’s just an explainer.
A cover to justify voting that way by.imlpying they don’t really support or endorse it all.

They do.
Otherwise they wouldn’t.