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To: maggief
Ms Harf’s problem is that her knowledge is from book-learning, not from practical experience.

She is on the same page Neville Chamberlain was on when dealing with Hitler. She had drunk the kool-aid and thinks diplomacy will win against fanatics that want to return to the 7th Century.

She is good a spouting the talking points. The problem is that those talking points offer no solutions or positions for dealing with radical Islam.

Job training? Most of the radical leaders are from wealth. Obama and his officials don't like to mention the wealth aspect, because it interferes with the narrative.

35 posted on 02/18/2015 6:13:19 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: TomGuy
Ms. Harf is smarter than most people. No. Really. She is "officially designated to be smart." People like this cannot be brought to believe that people less smart themselves can come up with anything useful. In fact, if someone less smart than themselves comes up with something, they reason it must not be worth considering. That is why when they develop a "narrative," to explain a situation to themselves, they cannot be moved off the point.

Face it. Ms. Harf has spent her whole life with people who are "officially" smarter than most people. What "officially smart people" cannot understand, however, is that whatever they think does not have to be true, just because that is what they feel or even think. This misunderstanding unites them and why they prefer to communicate amongst themselves. The "narratives" they develop comfort them and exclude those whom they perceive as less smart.

There is also the question of overly-specialized learning at the expense of . A friend of mine is reputed to be a brilliant physicist. He is a tenured full professor at an Ivy League university. He has no idea how his hot water heater works, and even less understanding of his automobile. He has a very difficult time talking with people he conceives as less smart than he thinks he is.

He is really smart. He has internalized all the "narratives." He is a fervent supporter of Barack Obama and cannot speak with anyone who disagrees.

49 posted on 02/18/2015 6:37:41 AM PST by Kenny Bunk (Lie down, GOP. You're dead.)
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