the scenes of black friday madness. you may have laughed or looked down your nose. but please remember, a lot of people are in those wild scenes because they re poor and they need the bargains or the work so badly, they ll put up with a lot. many people look at the poor and think they re poor because they deserve to be. they made mistakes and they have character defects like laziness. but that is social darwinist thinking, and new research shows it completely misunderstands the true nature of poverty. a new book called scarcity: why having too little means so much poverty imposes such a massive cognitive load on the poor, they have little band width left over to do things that would lift them out of poverty. the authors say each day in poverty can equal the mental load of losing an entire night s sleep. it s that poverty itself impairs the decision-making process because you re constantly preoccupied with short-term financial hurdles and crises.
checked and are deeply confusing. you see these ads. it s a really compelling case to say that they re not in this political system because the political system really sucks. the other thing i would say my argument would be that partisanship, when you look at the other people who are designing the it year round, we talk smack about partisanship. america s so partisan, more polariz polarized, partisanship is terrible. that s a rational, clean and efficient way of reducing the cognitive load for people that have busy lives and are doing a lot of things, right? it actually makes a lot of sense. in fact, the fact that there is this correlation between higher information voters and partisan ship should tell you something. i want to hear you respond to that after we take this break. [ male announcer ] when this hotel added aflac
assault. if you can t agree on some kind of common reality. and that is what he is after here. and that is what makes him a particularly malicious and malignant figure in the american political land and really in american history. i want to bring in now cnn political commentator scott jennings to join the group. scott, thanks for joining us. we re talking about propaganda and lies here. and i just want to read something. this is politico magazine. it published an article and it s called trump s lies versus your brain. it says certainly after the president took office the writer maria konnikova describes research on how people sort out what s true and what s a lie in their brains. first they have to accept any statement as true to understand it and then reject a lie with true facts. but i want you to listen to np here s what it says. when we are overwhelmed with false or potentially false statements our brains pretty quickly become so overworked that we stop trying to sift through