Empathy is sometimes used to mean the sharing of others’ feelings. But it has another important meaning: the skill of grasping what others think, feel and perceive. Empathy is not only active listening, but the practice of imagining or inferring other people’s mindsets, emotions and perspectives.
This is what Donald Trump and >Brexit campaigners did so brilliantly. They empathized with a large block of voters, gauged how they were thinking and feeling, and then exploited this for their political ends.
In both the US and UK a range of social and economic grievances has left voters feeling unjustly treated and neglected by what they see as self-serving political elites.… Seguir leyendo »
In an era in which yesterday’s inconceivable is making a habit of becoming today’s reality, it is perilous to offer firm predictions about the future, but folk carry on doing it all the same. I was recently at a conference about the causes and consequences of Brexit and the Trumpquake where I heard the French participants try to keep everyone calm by expressing confidence that those shattering setbacks to conventional wisdom would not be followed by the election of President Marine Le Pen. France was not America. Two rounds of voting would see the leader of the Front National beaten when it came to the final choice because moderate voters would coalesce behind whoever emerges as her prime competitor.… Seguir leyendo »
El hecho de que algunos separatistas catalanes, entre ellos Artur Mas, hayan elogiado la victoria de Donald Trump en las elecciones norteamericanas, como si fuera el camino a seguir en la lucha contra el establishment político, revela los abismos increíbles a los que ha caído el discurso político en los últimos meses. Con demasiada frecuencia, los comentaristas se han referido a la inesperada victoria de Donald Trump como si fuera consecuencia de un recrudecimiento del populismo en las democracias occidentales. Se ha sugerido que la gente común se ha rebelado contra las políticas apoyadas por los políticos tradicionales, y ha preferido poner su fe en una alternativa radical.… Seguir leyendo »
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