I live in California. Pollsters are 100% confident that Obama will win all of our electoral votes.
My daughter lives in Texas. Pollsters are 100% confident that Romney will win all of their electoral votes.
So while it is irrational, I closely follow the presidential election and know that many of my friends in these states do as well.
It's a tribal thing, apparently. My rooting for the Giants to win won't change their odds in the playoffs. Yet I pay attention. I root for them to win. I want the Giants to win.
So partly we vote and cheer for "our team" politically because we think our vote will make a difference. Probably more importantly, we do it because it makes us feel - for whatever misguided reasons - like we're not alone in our worldview. We're together in the stadium and we can hear others chanting the same slogans.
R World (Ron Davison muses aloud)
I read one time that most of the real hippies, once they realized the world wasn't going to change, just sort of walled the world out and went their own way.
ReplyDeleteI think there are an awful lot of us that don't feel like we have a team to cheer for anymore.