K. Chen: A problem with people who know too much about politics is they don't really think voters are real. Kind of like how physicists don't really think atoms are real.

A problem with people who know too much about politics is they don't really think voters are real. Kind of like how physicists don't really think atoms are real.

This is written for the perhaps dozen other people who preferred chemistry to physics and are also political hobbyists.

It's not that they don't think voters are real, it's that they only know how to deal with perfectly spherical voters in a vacuum.

Maybe our brains are simply trying to protect us from what we have learned about voters (don’t remember through about physics to know if this metaphor carries through)

Wait what does this mean

To exaggerate a bit, physicists and chemists both study the physical world, but physicists care about /forces/ and chemists care about /stuff/ (molecules) and that difference in perspective creates an odd deformation professionelle in perceiving the world.

So a chemist and a physicist can end up screaming at each other in bewildered confusion while describing the same thing believing in the same scientific principles. It's actually pretty funny. Anyway, politics people tend to think a lot about structure and trends and sociological forces.

They don't really imagine voters. They imagine the forces that move them.

Oh I see, thank you

Or mathematicians are some of the most likely to tell you numbers aren't real.

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