{"id":5941,"date":"2016-10-16T10:58:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T15:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=5941"},"modified":"2016-10-16T10:58:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T15:58:09","slug":"sorting-people-out-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/10\/16\/sorting-people-out-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorting People Out, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

A reader responds to the analysis of authoritarians<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In addition to making a slight change in how we raise our children, we could also address the things which cause their fears.<\/p>\n

I’d argue that it’s likely that children raised with a growth mindset (see Carol Dweck’s research) instead of a fixed mindset would be less authoritarian-responsive, in addition to just being happier, more productive and successful adults. That will take a long time to accomplish, however (change the conventions for parenting and schooling and then pass an entire generation of kids into middle age where they can influence policies — so minimum 30 to 50 years). Our civilization may not last that long if this goes completely unchecked.<\/p>\n

We can do things about some of their fears, though, such as economic stability, jobs and terrorism. Fixing things like “corporate personhood” and Citizens United would go a long way to helping citizens feel like government is responsive to them, rather than in the pockets of “elites”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For another insight into the minds of Trump supporters, check out this blog post<\/a> from Cracked’s<\/strong><\/em> David Wong. It seems fairly logical and has the additional positive of being written from someone who’s been there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A reader responds to the analysis of authoritarians: In addition to making a slight change in how we raise our children, we could also address the things which cause their fears. I’d argue that it’s likely that children raised with a growth mindset (see Carol Dweck’s research) instead of a \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5943,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5941\/revisions\/5943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}