The metaphor of how to boil a frog. Tossing a frog into a boil pot of water the Frog will immediately jump up due to the sudden change in temperature. Instead you place the frog in the pot then apply the heat. The frog will sit comfortable in the water as it cooks to death in its complacency. image provided by Skeptical Science Graphics by Skeptical Science is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License . The boiling frog metaphor finds its most potent application in the Overton Window—the range of ideas considered acceptable in public discourse. Just as the frog adapts to the water’s rising temperature, societies adapt to shifting norms. What begins as unthinkable gradually becomes palatable, then accepted, and finally championed. Trump’s rhetoric on NATO, immigration, and election integrity shifted the Overton Window dramatically. Ideas once relegated to the political fringe were brought into mainstream discourse through repeti...
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