This is a direct copy and paste from a comment, but I figured it should get more visibility and would as its own post.
They put Trump in to give right wingers hope.
There was where rats were dropped into tubes filled with water. The rats would desperately tread water and try to keep their head up. The average length of time before the rats drowned was 4 minutes. They repeated the experiment, but as the rats started to drown, they pulled them out, let them catch their breath and relax a bit, then put them back into the tubes. The average length of time before the rats drowned was almost 15 minutes.
Just the fact that the rats were rescued once gave them enough hope of being rescued again that they endured almost 4x as much suffering and exhaustion before they gave up.
You are a rat, Trump pulled you out of the water for a bit before dropping you back in, while maintaining this illusion of “hope” that he’ll come back and save you again. Because of this, you’ll last significantly longer before you desperately fight back than you would have if they had gone straight from Obama to biden.
Don’t be fooled by the false hope. Don’t hang on longer than you should because you think Trump or anyone else will come back and save you a second time. Get mad, and do something about it. Trump was not our friend, he was a tool, and still is
This is a direct copy and paste from a comment, but I figured it should get more visibility and would as its own post.
> They put Trump in to give right wingers hope.
>There was [an experiment in the 50s](https://worldofwork.io/2019/07/drowning-rats-psychology-experiments/) where rats were dropped into tubes filled with water. The rats would desperately tread water and try to keep their head up. The average length of time before the rats drowned was 4 minutes. They repeated the experiment, but as the rats started to drown, they pulled them out, let them catch their breath and relax a bit, then put them back into the tubes. The average length of time before the rats drowned was almost 15 minutes.
>Just the fact that the rats were rescued once gave them enough hope of being rescued again that they endured almost 4x as much suffering and exhaustion before they gave up.
>You are a rat, Trump pulled you out of the water for a bit before dropping you back in, while maintaining this illusion of “hope” that he’ll come back and save you again. Because of this, you’ll last significantly longer before you desperately fight back than you would have if they had gone straight from Obama to biden.
Don’t be fooled by the false hope. Don’t hang on longer than you should because you think Trump or anyone else will come back and save you a second time. Get mad, and do something about it. Trump was not our friend, he was a tool, and still is
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