Posted on 12/05/2013 7:07:13 AM PST by rktman
Young voters are easily duped and charmed by charismatic, good-looking politicians who deliver scripted and articulate speeches devoid of truth and logic.
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After all...he was Catholic, I was catholic. He had that Boston accent....How could you go wrong.
My dad's lesson also included "Don't believe everything you read".
Yes, and how do they “feel” when we call them Low Information Voters? It’s a matter of selling the product. Back in the old days, there were Ford families and GM families and Chrysler families. A Chrysler salesman trying to convince a Ford person to buy his product wouldn’t start the conversation with, “Ah,you own a Ford. You’re an idiot. Want to buy a Chrysler?” Doesn’t work real good. The salesman needs to establish a connection with the buyer. “I see you drive an Explorer. Good vehicles. Let me tell you why our Durango would be a great replacement for your Explorer.” Call someone stupid and they shut down. Show some understanding, and they just might listen to you.
I think you just said that people see only what they want to see, and that is no truer than with the common liberal. All they know is what they want at the time, and that shapes their entire moral outlook.
Hillary sealed hers, too.
Hillary is neither good looking, nor charismatic, nor articulate, nor intelligent, but she fits the next demoCRAP/media politician..... she's liberal & a woman. Just like 0dumb0 was liberal and black (his 1/2 white doesn't count). Therefore just as 0dumb0 was the affirmative action president for being black & liberal, so will Hillary be the next president (my prediction) cause she is liberal & a woman.
Of course Sarah Palin is a woman as well, but because she is a Christian & conservative, the left viciously hates her and attacks her & mocks her, while accepting any fubar gaffes by Hillary as being the mark of a genius!
From an energy management point of view, the brain uses a lot of energy and from an evolutionary point of view, survival means effectively limiting it use.
It's more or less built in that most of us only think when we have to and tend to use short cuts in our thinking, such as labeling things, to lighten the load and get to an answer faster.
We take much for granted in favor of our past decisions and beliefs however we came to them, but especially so with personal ideologies imbued with emotion, such as with money, religion and politics, and tend not to want to challenge or question them.
In the cost/reward equation, the cost/effort is high and the reward a question mark. As such, many need to be "hit upside the head with the 2x4 of reality" to truly think about and question what they believe.
Until that moment of pain and cognitive dissonance, rarely do people voluntarily challenge the beliefs they've somehow acquired, and even less frequently welcome a contrary opinion to deeply or emotionally held beliefs.
Unfortunately, we, the people, are we, the indoctrinated. The trick is to get people to want their freedom when they don't even know they're enslaved or worse: they LIKE it.
Don'chu be getttin' in between someone and their infatuations, especially their "true loves" and messiahs.
True. It's tricky, but we're all in this together and a true friend will gently show someone they've been fooled and duped, that their good nature has been used against them, making them say, do and support things they don't believe in.
Then, a true friend, will step aside and watch them decide what they need to do about it.
how about them Bulldogs?
In terms of evolution, now I think you’re referring to something that can be best termed as groupthink. Tribalistic behavior, basically, which humans (being social creatures) instictively gravitate toward. But modern society is not what we evolved in, so the rules have changed. The old ways don’t work anymore and we must adopt a more spiritual outlook. Liberals just don’t get it that their behavior isn’t progressive, it’s tribalistic and is taking us backwards.
"Nothing new under the sun" is the response to that belief, no matter what toys we have.
We are evermore the social creature we've always been, as the popularity of social networks demonstrate and the "low information voter" verifies. What is rare is the dispassionate observer.
To understand some of what's being done to US, especially in our politics, you might enjoy studying the psychology of first impressions, advertising and marketing.
It's discouraging, but amazing, how "pre-programed" we tend to be and most have no clue how easily manipulated they are and often live and do things on a lazy sort of cruise control of habits and automatic responses.
Advertisers, marketers, serial daters and politicians definitely do understand, however, and use this understanding to their advantage. Always been that way.
Most ignore or are oblivious to that moment of choice between stimulus and response and respond instead with an automatic sub-routine.
Breaking the pattern of those automatic sub-routines is not easy and few go there unless they have to.
Yes, we are easily manipulated. We’re hynotized, and the government doesn’t want us to snap out of it. I remember hearing Roy Masters (a bonafide hypnotist) say that mass hypnosis would be so... easy..... Especially with the modern media and TV—something you just stare at and think you’re being entertained. “How do you wake up?” is the question. Me thinks it’s the belief in a higher power.
I believe that the recent Virginia governor’s election was a successful test of Terry McAuliffe’s only campaign strategy
(if the wall-to-wall pro-unfettered-abort, pro-free-birth-control, pro-promiscuity television ads were any indicator), apparently based on the proposition that women primarily think with and about their reproductive organs. And vote for him they did!
I guess it helps when the GOPe and moderates abandoned the Republican nominee too
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