
Session 4: Does the Regulatory State Fuel Populism?
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The Psychological Concept of Action Bias in Conservative Movements
A lot of what's going on with conservative groups that want to use government to achieve their ends is they just don't want to come to grips with the fact. Whatever regulation you create whatever bureau you create will be in the hands of other party half the time and bureaucrats running it will be on the other side all the time. i think you see that as a common denominator in these populist movements they don't like that other group uh tell them what to do if there's another psychological concept that i'm a huge promoter of and that is action bias It comes down to you know something must be done this is something therefore this must be done, he says.
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