How Anchoring Shapes Political Narratives | 5/15/23
The Auron MacIntyre Show
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The Importance of Anchoring in Political Discussions
In political dialectics, people want to meet in the middle. If your opponent is always kind of this irrational person making crazy far reaching demands, anchoring their position well beyond what any reasonable people would do, then guess who's going to win every one of these discussions? The crazy person. It's going to be the irrational person. They are using the anchoring technique to put you so far away from what you actually want and so much closer to their radical position that you'll line up with what they really wanted in the first place by just meeting them somewhere in themiddle. And when you have an entire idea that your political system is built on compromise, Anchoring is the perfect technique
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