Except the emotion is shrill and does win. Look at the last two elections. Look at the global warming debate. Look at the Pipeline debate. Look at the immigration debate.
We have a government comprised of dems who exist because of shrill emotion and emotion in general. (War on women meme in addition to the above) and a GOP that fed on fear to push Romney and the rest of the liberal wing. Remember all the crap around the last election? Also consider that Cochran is a result of GOP shrill emotionalism, or just emotionalism period.
Emotion has no place in fact based debate. In traducing it always leads to emotional, not fact based outcomes...thus the world we live in. Emotion does have a place. We are human afterall (most of us anyway) But not when expecting logical outcomes.
traducing...Don’t even know how that collection of letters happened.
No it isn’t. Shrill turns people off. Yes look at the last two elections, especially 2008. Hilary was shrill, she lost. Paul, Gingrich, Bachman, all shrill, all lost. Obama ran in 2008 on the blandest campaign slogan in forever, won. Keystone pipeline again shows my point, it keeps getting built. Illegal immigration again shows my point, we keep being shrill on that and nothing continues to be done to fix it. Look also at global warming, people got bored with the shrill, even the people that believe in it are getting tired of the noise.
Shrill gets money in the campaign coffers, but it doesn’t get the votes. The war on women meme AGAIN shows my point, they NEVER manage to change anything.
Emotion is a useful driving force, it engages people, it inspires them. And not everybody is really into facts, but you can still sway them with positive emotion. Shrill just turns people off. It’s one of the things driving people away from TV news right now, it’s nothing but yelling and shout downs, it’s uninteresting to anybody that’s not one of the converted, and even many of the converted find it just a loud echo chamber. Peaceful presentation gets less headlines, but it really is what sways people. The very things you’ve pointed to show that.