Posted on 12/28/2012 9:11:25 AM PST by Perseverando
Exclusive: Robert Ringer seeks ways to get through to the redistribution-minded
While driving into D.C. last week, I was listening to Rush Limbaugh expound on an important issue that I don’t believe many pro-liberty people give much thought to. He said that “low-information” voters present a serious problem because there is no way to reach people who are uninformed. Worse, most of these people don’t like conservatives or libertarians.
No doubt about it, Rush has zeroed in on the crux of the problem when it comes to the decline and fall of the American Empire. How in the world do you reach people who not only are devoid of knowledge, but, in addition, don’t like the very people who have the information they so desperately need?
Worse, low-information voters are attracted to slogans, catchwords and fact-free propaganda – the more outrageous, the better. They are drawn to gobbledygook like “pay your fair share,” “social justice” and “shared prosperity” because such nonsense requires no thinking and thus is easily digested by the brain.
We’ve all seen the random street interviews with people who have no clue about the national debt, Benghazi-gate, Obamacare, or even the difference between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. These hollowheads know nothing about Barack Obama’s radical socialist past or that he has never been vetted by the media. They know only that he has a great smile, tells them he will make the rich pony up a still larger share of their ill-gotten gains and promises to give them evermore free stuff.
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No.
So, how do you reach the low information voters? How do you get them to vote Republican? Well, you could spend billions of dollars over the next ten years to try to educate them to reach Self-Actualization. All the while the Democrats will play upon their fear. If fear is what motivates them, then use fear. Turnabout is fair play. Make them fear the Democrats. The Democrat voters, contrary to popular belief, aren’t stupid. They aren’t a bunch of geniuses, but they aren’t stupid. They vote for their PERCEIVED ECONOMIC SELF INTEREST. I didn’t say ACTUAL ECONOMIC SELF INTEREST, I wrote PERCEIVED ECONOMIC SELF INTEREST. They may not understand economics, but they understand money. How do you get a Democrat voter’s attention when the Democrats keep telling him/her that the Republicans want to starve and kill them. You tell them to vote Republican or there won’t be any government money to give them. You tell them the Democrats are like their Crazy Uncle Harry who gave all his money to cats and is now homeless. You show them the Democrats like to hand out government money, they just wind up screwing it up so bad that there won’t be any government money for them to hand out. Fear....there won’t be any more government money. Look at the rich Democrats. Will Pelosi or Harry Reid wind up out on the street? No way! Fear....they will screw it up so bad that you will wind up out on the street.
Does that mean
"IGNORANT
ig·no·rant
/ˈignərənt/ Adjective
Lacking knowledge or awareness in general; uneducated or unsophisticated.
Lacking knowledge, information, or awareness about something in particular: "ignorant of astronomy"
Sometimes I get so sick & tired of euphemisms.
...and why the NEA Teachers’ (Marxist) Union is so critical to ensure the continued dumbing down of these idiots.
Hosea 4:6
‘...my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. “Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.’ NIV
“My people are being destroyed because they don’t know me. Since you priests refuse to know me, I refuse to recognize you as my priests. Since you have forgotten the laws of your God, I will forget to bless your children.” New Living Translation
Rush recently coined the term "low information voter" as sort of a joke. He uses that term instead of "moron." It's the kinder, gentler, non-threatening Rush--his joke.
I agree. It's a matter of image and personna. These low info voters don't want a slick used car salesman like Romney. Reagan could bypass the MSM with his personality. We need a strong conservative with a strong personality and appealing image to reach these low information voters
Isn’t it cruel and beneath us to use fear to motivate Democrat voters to vote for the Republicans? Isn’t it cruel for the Democrats to use fear to get people to vote for them? Turnabout is fair play. Reach the Democrat voters at the lowest end of the Hierarchy of Needs. The Democrats and their policies will end up with you out in the street or dead. Is it wrong to tell the Democrat voters the truth? Should we not allow them to know the danger of Democrat policies? Tell the Democrat voters that the Democrat leaders are greedy fools whose policies will put Democrats out on the street to starve. The road to hell is paved with good intentions and the road to hunger is paved with Democrat policies. As long as we tell the truth, I don’t have any problem using fear to get Democrat voters to vote Republican.
How about Information Deprived Individuals Of Tainted Sanity or IDIOTS for short.
Well, I guess that is just shorthand for democrat.
The Idiocracy is upon us.
FUBO & FAD
No. Low information is a choice. It’s laziness. Oooh, he’s cute. Oooh, he has nice hair. Oooh, he promised to pay my rent. Ooooh, he’s blaaaaack so I’m going to vote for him.
If we define low-information voters as not wanting to hear from conservatives or libertarians, they are solid Democrat base voters. That is not what lost this election, because they always vote for the Democrat voter. We lost a different type of voter. Those that don’t care about politics, don’t invest time in reading/watching the news beyond the headlines they see on tv and online, and are susceptible to the left’s propaganda and accept that message during election time. They people are hard to get to with the left’s gatekeepers in the media, but we have to do it.
Frankly, beyond the candidate’s weakness this time, our side lost because it ran the campaign based on the assumption that people were unhappy and the solid majority that disliked Obama’s policies during his first term would just not vote or would go GOP. They did not account for those people being convinced to show up for Obama anyway. We didn’t educate and we didn’t reinforce Obama’s blame for the current environment. We let their blame-others and skewed numbers showing a recovery stand. We needed to counter the numbers with real numbers...the fact that the recession ended 4 months into Obama’s term, but the economy never turned back up. We needed to show the flat-lined economy, but that message never got out.
“I’d much rather take away their vote, myself”
This, but I fear it’s too late to do that now. The founding fathers never intended for everyone to vote. They knew some people are just too stupid, too uninformed, and too lazy to learn the issues. The country was lost when we let morons and parasites have the vote. It has just taken this long for the country to fail.
I guess you’re probably right. But I can still hope, can’t I?
"Ignorant" or "moron" are so much more concise.
In the same vein, the term "agnostic" comes from the Greek.
"Agnostic (from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-), meaning "without", and γνῶσις (gnōsis), meaning "knowledge") was used by Thomas Henry Huxley in a speech at a meeting of the Metaphysical Society in 1869[12] to describe his philosophy which rejects all claims of spiritual or mystical knowledge."
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnosticism"
The same term in Latin is:
"ignoramus (n.)
1570s, from an Anglo-French legal term (early 15c.), from L. ignoramus "we do not know," first person present indicative of ignorare "not to know" (see ignorant).
The legal term was one a grand jury could write on a bill when it considered the prosecution's evidence insufficient. Sense of "ignorant person" came from the title role of George Ruggle's 1615 play satirizing the ignorance of common lawyers."
"http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=ignoramus"
"Ignoramus" sounds like a good description to me.
I define the term “Effective Information” (EI).
There’s two types of information: True Information (TI) and False Information (FI). They are both in the range from zero up to some positive number.
Effective Information is the result of this formula:
EI = TI - FI.
Thus, EI can be zero or negative. A person can have EI = 0 due either to a large amount of FI cancelling out a comparable amount of TI, or it can simply be the result of no TI or FI at all (i.e., total ignorance)
So it is the low or negative EI voter that is the great danger to our nation; and, by extension, Civilization.
Funny, I was also listening to that very same Rush Limbaugh program and while I heard him talk about low information voters, I heard Rush say some things that are very different from what this fellow is saying.
1. Rush said that the democrats had discovered that exciting and turning out the base was more important than going after the moderates and independents. Rush said this was contrary to the customary political understanding held by the republican pundits and consultants who were all operating with the understanding that winning the moderates was the most important thing.
The GOP-e went after the moderates and lost big time. The dems took care of their base and won.
2. Rush said that these low info voters did not like republicans or democrats. I don’t recall him saying anything about not liking libertarians (I don’t think they even know what those are) and conservatives. Because of that, I wonder the author of this article is addressing the wrong side of the problem. These low info voters are influenced by the liberal garbage they are fed every day by circus portion of the bread and circuses act performed today. Television, radio and every form of entertainment is dominated by libs, but the main influence are still their friends and neighbors. If their friends are excited about a particular candidate, they can be swayed.
I believe this is why exciting the base is so important. Our biggest deficit this time was that Romney did not excite the base. Obama excited our base. Our people voted against Obama, not for Romney. If the republicans want to win ever again, they can get the low info voters when an excited base draws them in. Otherwise the low info voters who happen to be more conservative will just stay home.
We have a winner here!
The Republicans can fire all these consultants and pundits and hire blueunicorn6. In two sentences he summarizes the problem of the Republican's sorry state. They listen to consultants who are clueless about real voters but who walk away from campaigns as millionaires, win or lose, and move on to the next campaign where they will make more millions.
We have a winner here!
The Republicans can fire all these consultants and pundits and hire blueunicorn6. In two sentences he summarizes the problem of the Republican's sorry state. They listen to consultants who are clueless about real voters but who walk away from campaigns as millionaires, win or lose, and move on to the next campaign where they will make more millions.
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