Emotionality aids rather than disrupts political reasoning and democratic life.

Evidence

More deeply, we believe that a mounting body of evidence in neurophysiology, psychology, and political science points toward the distinctive roles that different emotions play in stimulating political attentiveness. We offer a view that shows how emotionality aids, rather than disrupts, political reasoning and enhances, rather than diminishes, the quality of democratic life. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1660

Categorization

• SEED: An angle challenging the rational-voter ideal: emotions as functional inputs to political cognition, not noise.
• XREF: connects to: Aesthetic experience functions as political apprenticeship for future freedom.; Passions and affects, not rationality, secure allegiance to democratic values — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 433; Left voters’ emotional support for opposition parties is sentimentality, not meaningful politics — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1396 (+3 more)