Even you are way too kind to the socialists. You need to explain very simply how your side is better and works for the public good as opposed to redistributive malaise and capital constriction. Until then, until we have a plain speaking common sense person who can truly explain why capitalist policies are for the greater good, the socialsits will continue to keep racism, perversion, sick voter alliances and bigger and bigger governemnt as their power base to maintain control and power. The Repub/Independents need to work on controlling the Senate and House first in two years. In the end that is what it is about for them: power and control, not the greatest good for the greatest number. Think about it a lot harder, metaphysicize it more, then return with simple absolute truths about the system you promote at its most basic levels. Not meeting whack for whack, but explain why their system is flawed and yours is not. All the way down to ground zero economically. No one who has not made up their mind about left versus right will have one clue about what you wrote above. Make it simple and true. And explain WHY it works.
Ding ding ding! No more calls, folks! We have a winner!
LES, you have just explained in one sentence, why the Republicans lost the last two presidential elections, and why GWB was just barely twice elected.
We haven't had a candidate who truly lives, breathes, and owns our country's Founding Principles, since Ronald Reagan. We will not win the White House until someone who does, steps forth and decimates the policies of the left with facts, logic, reason, and real courage.
Listen to conservative icon, Bill Whittle explain this very concept:
“You need to explain very simply how your side is better and works for the public good as opposed to redistributive malaise and capital constriction.”
Yes and no. The case I am making is a technical case that the brain is most easily programmed to be averse to things. It is a consequence of evolution, where you really needed to learn what was bad for you, in your environment. As a result, you actually have a brain structure, which spends its time spotting things which are bad, and linking them to perceived causes, so you can avoid the bad in the future. Interestingly the more developed the structure, the more likely you are to be Conservative, and understand the bad things which need to be avoided.
My point is, this is an easily exploitable hack for the brain, because all you need to do is emotionally attach Liberalsim to negative feelings, through denigration, ridicule, humiliation, and adverse consequences in real life.
This is not so much a feeling/opinion piece as a mechanistic, “here is a simple mechanism you can exploit” piece.
“Not meeting whack for whack, but explain why their system is flawed and yours is not.”
This piece is a simplified introduction to how neuroscience should mold strategy. Based on it, we should be going two whacks for every one from a liberal. Whacks are what make ideologues, particularly among the mushy center, who wouldn’t even take the time to listen to a reasoned argument, or inform themselves.
“No one who has not made up their mind about left versus right will have one clue about what you wrote above.”
Exactly. Because they have the attention span of chickpeas. That’s why the piece doesn’t advocate for making detailed arguments to them. This is being written for strategists. Again, a cat can be trained to panic at the sound of a whistle, if their amygdala links the sound of the whistle to aversive stimulus.
Look at my piece as explaining the following mechanism. I have a really delicious apple pie. I want you to eat a piece. If I offer it to you, you will eat it. If I hold a shotgun loaded with 3” 00 buck to your knee, and tell you I’m pulling the trigger in 30 seconds unless the piece of pie is finished, you will eat it, very fast.
The first method uses a dopamine release, which motivates nicely. The second method uses the amygdala which motivates with certainty. In a political game of rock/paper/scissors, amygdala trumps dopamine.
Machiavelli said the same thing when he said “It is good to be loved, but it is surer to be feared.”
If you focus on technical manipulations, emotionally linking Liberalism to aversive stimulus, you will motivate people to turn right far better than the feel good pablum the GOPe uses now, and even the logical arguments which would motivate you.
It is a geek piece for a narrow audience, though.