I don't think Joey was making a messaging recommendation.
He was musing about why people's perceptions are so far from the reality of the world. I think it's the human tendency to see the sky as always falling, colliding with the 24/7 news cycle that only reports about the 1 in 10,000,000 commuters who gets mugged on the subway, so people only see bad news. Good news is ho hum, repetitive (because not getting mugged is the norm we all experience), and doesn't sell.
Trump showed how to take advantage of it - demagoguery. Scapegoats. Bernie does some of that, mainly talking about the evils of the rich and of corporations, but particularly in the case of the latter, ignoring all the benefits they've brought to our lives.
it's an exciting message, and I think people exhausted by decades of out of proportion fears of terrorism, decades of two wars, and the worst financial collapse since '29 if not ever, accelerating opportunities for economic and social disruption, make it intoxicating to too many people.
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Posted: 02/23/2020 at 1:25PM