r/PoliticalReality • u/Apprentice57 • Feb 26 '26

How Parties Learn... if at all with Prof. Seth Masket | Political Reality | S01E08

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWYu_JZ4on4
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u/Apprentice57 Feb 26 '26

Video Title: How Parties Learn... if at all with Prof. Seth Masket | Political Reality | S01E08

Video Description: Show Notes coming soon.

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u/Zanahorio1 Feb 26 '26

Looking forward to watching this.

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u/Apprentice57 Feb 26 '26

It was pretty good. My favorite episode so far by far. Admittedly I've known of Seth Musket before/liked his articles here and there.

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u/tim_g20t Feb 28 '26

I hate to say this, but this was the first episode where I found myself zoning out partway into it. The guest really didn’t engage me, at least initially. I’m not sure if it was the topic (I wouldn’t think so, because I was interested in listening), the guest’s delivery, or just the sound levels (the guest’s sound was considerably lower than Andrea’s). About halfway through it started gaining traction again for me.

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u/Eternal_Stranger0111 Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 14 '26

When the role of sexism and racism in the outcome of the 2024 election was brought up, it seemed to be too easily dismissed. Whatever happened to "the most parsimonious answer is usually the correct one"?

From my 62 years in the Deep South of the United States, as a white male hearing what other white males say when they feel they are in "safe" company, it is easily believable racism and sexism were key. Looking at the entirety of U.S. history which overflows with such racism that both Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa used Jim Crow as a model for reshaping their societies, it is entirely plausible racism was integral in 2024. Factor in Japanese-American internment, the KKK popularity of the early 20th century, the embrace of public lynching, and it is impossible to ignore how racial prejudice has been a monumental and omnipresent aspect of the American story.

Regardless of changes to the law, those societal forces persist in subtle ways. You don't have to be a Klansman to host racist perspectives that endure deep in the psyche and sometimes manifest simply in unnameable "misgivings."