https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2020\/2\/18\/21112012\/liberals-conservatives-american-politics-eitan-hersh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“When you\u2019re a hobbyist, you\u2019re learning the wrong information and practicing the wrong skills. You are typically learning about big national news items, and oftentimes it\u2019s just drama. So a hobbyist might learn all the details of the Mueller report and feel that\u2019s important to know and will spend hours and hours on it.<\/p>\n
But then if you asked him how he could get involved on some issues of importance in his local community or in his state, or where the pressure points are in his community to influence government, he has no idea. He\u2019s just caught up in the national news cycle and he\u2019s not actually improving anything.<\/p>\n
The hobbyist is also learning the wrong political skills. Online politics is all about provocation and signaling outrage. But changing people\u2019s minds, turning your vote into many votes, requires empathy and face-to-face engagement. Not only are you not doing this online or when watching cable news, you\u2019re learning exactly the wrong skill set.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[511,510,508,509],"class_list":["post-2294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-engagement","tag-face-to-face","tag-liberals","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2295,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions\/2295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}