Chaos rules when politicians ferment distrust in government with lies. It may be that the politicians try to get the citizens to think the existing government is too big and should be dismantled. It may be that the politicians are emotionally unstable and seek to achieve power or provide entertainment by talking in ways that create chaos among listeners. According to the NIH “recent research shows that some individuals have a strong desire to incite chaos when they perceive themselves to be marginalized by society. These individuals tend to see chaos as a way to invert the power structure and gain social status in the process.”
Chaos has been adopted by the US rich people as a way to prevent taxation of their incomes at a rate comparable to the US middle-class. It has been very effective. According to a 2022 report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) the richest 1% owns more than a third of all U.S. wealth, while the top 10% holds 72% of America's total wealth. It's a share that's increased over time. The less advantaged people notice the disparities and are ripe for politicians bent on fermenting chaos.
This situation has created polarization in the US. Polarization is a situation where two sides of ideology find it difficult to talk to each other, one side feels excluded by the other. Polarization with respect to income disparity results in the differentiation of social groups who are not able to find common ground. Programs that promote chaos have been able to generate millions for the people who lie and make reporting an exaggeration of reality, emphasizing disparities and threats. Dispute resolution needs to help decrease the sharp edges of greed and superior acting people to help people find common ground in humanity.
De-polarization brings enormous responsibility to not let the country dissolve, not let democracy disappear. Education matters. Leadership matters. Major media, social media, and podcasts all communicate political activity. Ways of moderating communication can affect whether the country becomes polarized.
Can we make the truth as exciting as chaos? Can we make journalistic restraint as able to generate revenue as polarization reporting? Can we organize Challenge groups that fetter out the Russian propaganda posing a challenge to our democracy? How we achieve this is quite sophisticated. The journalist has to control the headline instead of letting a politician dedicated to violence control the headline.
This is a daily news summary representing conversations about some aspect of voting technology innovation or implementation. Susan Eustis learned about voting when she was 5 years old. Her father was head of manufacturing for AVM. Susan Huhn Eustis used to take the high-paid AVM consultants horseback riding at age 9. She would tell them their new voting machine designs were wrong. In her 20's she invented the first electronic voting machine.
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Note on Methodology: Most of the material presented comes from 20 sources or more and there is an attempt by the author to find common ground between the different sources.
NIH https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33611991/#:~:text=Recent%20research%20shows%20that%20some,social%20status%20in%20the%20process.