Posted on 11/23/2016 5:10:16 PM PST by markomalley
Have you noticed that ever since November 8, the pundit class has transitioned swiftly from making (terrible) predictions about the election outcome, to making (terrible) predictions about the nature of the coming Trump presidency? Who will he nominate to be Secretary of State? What will he do in his first 100 days? Endless parlor games about predicting how some future event will unfold — these people apparently are capable of doing little else.
They engage in these pointless exercises instead of examining the actual, tangible data before them. They’re stuck in this mode of constant future-guessing, as if that’s their default posture in life. Gazing into their non-existent crystal ball and telling us, the laymen, what’s going to happen next. Why? Many of these same pundits spent literally two years, if not more, trying to forecast how the 2016 election would play out. We’ve now had hard data for a grand total of two weeks. Why not focus on that for awhile, instead of getting enmeshed in this constant daily folly of never-ending guessing games?
Trying to predict the future confers no useful informational value. It’s something that is common practice among fortune-tellers, certain religious zealots, assorted cranks, and pundits. Pundits love to do it because it requires no real work of them, and confers on them a sense of unwarranted expertise, because of course it’s they, the great and almighty, who are equipped with the analytical tools to proffer such awe-inspiring predictions for the edification of us peons.
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“Why Are Pundits Obsessed With Making Idiotic Predictions?”
For crying out loud, what a dumb question, as it answers itself!!
It’s because the pundits are IDIOTS!!!
Because if they didn’t “pundit” they would have to “punt it” and live in their parents basement like the rest of His Arrogance’s and Benghazi’s supporters!!!!
I predict this thread gets 47 responses.
Thats a tard number how come you picked it
Yes...and because of the idiots who pay attention to them.
Every political or sociological writer wants some level of fame. They usually wish to become the next Nostrodamus, Jeanne Dixon, or at very least a poor man’s Jimmy the Greek.
When you see it you should call it propaganda because that’s what it is. :)
Most of us here on FR made predictions on how the election would turn out. None of us were paid for our predictions here but a lot of us did quite well. From my perspective I could see 3 possibilities narrow wins by either candidate and a landslide by Trump. What actually happened was a comfortable win by Trump in the electoral college and a loss in the popular vote. None of what I saw might happen did.
Because they have nothing better to do.
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