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One line in a recent p'nut video on YouTube describing the situation bothered me. It was saying Trump supporters were somehow blaming Biden or Harris for New York state raiding a home, stealing a pet squirrel and a raccoon, then euthanizing them. In the book "the master and his emissary" by Iain McGilchrist, he discusses the difference in information processing between the right and left hemispheres of the brain. One side of the brain is very literal, factual, precise, the other side is more broad, looks for connections between things, intuitive. The thing is, for the intuitive side of the brain, you don't need to directly link two things that are intuitively linked for them to be seen as connected. Government overreach by New York state still tells a story about government overreach federally even if there is no direct connection.

Holistic thinking often finds truth much faster than autistic data analysis because patterns show faster than all the calculations required for a direct mathematical calculation of everything. Moreover, it may find truths that data analysis never find enough data to prove the still intuitively obvious link. That's what made the story compelling to people, the intuitive injustice in one tiny case applied to many other daily situations despite not having a direct link.