Politicians should focus on why we should elect them rather than why we shouldn’t elect the other guy. This middle-school clique politicking has been incredibly detrimental, and the longer it goes on, the worse things will get. The whole “get a message out in 3 seconds” aspect is partly to blame, and we as citizens need to own up to the fact that we collectively are responsible for this crap, as our habits have indicated that we dont want “long form” even when something like that is important to have and to be able to accurately convey information.
The long form position statements are important to high information voters. Always have been. But a lot of people are swayed more by rapid-fire punches and meme content that doesn’t ask or require a lot of thought. I think that’s the only reason Trump was ever in any races, because he can generate those day In and day out. He’s a rabid narcissist attack dog. But people love to see him throw haymaker after haymaker. In the 2016 gop candidate debates he was behind most of the race. But he’d take one of the top opponents and hammer on them and knock them out of the race, one by one, until he was the only viable candidate left. That’s how he wins.
That’s why I think Harris, as a prosecutor, able to stand in that ring with him and punch him back, will be able to win this fight.
Why is boxing such a natural analogy for this? I never even liked it.
Many candidates do both at the same time, even most of the horrible ones who are lying through their teeth.
The news tends to focus on the part that gets the eyeballs, which as you mentioned is our fault. But if they don’t include their opponent’s faults then it isn’t clear why their thing that is supposed to help is better than the opponents thing that is claimed to help but would be a negative for the public.
“Don’t elect the other guy” campaigning is strongly incentivized by first past the post voting, unfortunately. Not that that’s the sole cause, but… it’s certainly not helping.
There are VERY legitimate reasons to warn against Trump, and Trump then blowhorns the other way, to make it look like both sides are the same.
Republicans make scandals of EVERYTHING, just to make a scandal, remember Obama wore a tan suit? And had Dijon sennep on a sandwich!!
Both sides are not equal in this. Republicans were always worse, and Trump has taken it to another level.
sadly the “info in 3 seconds” problem is only getting worse as more and more people move on from tv news to the only thing that’s worse, getting their news from short form video on platforms like Facebook and tiktok.
Politicians should focus on why we should elect them rather than why we shouldn’t elect the other guy. This middle-school clique politicking has been incredibly detrimental, and the longer it goes on, the worse things will get. The whole “get a message out in 3 seconds” aspect is partly to blame, and we as citizens need to own up to the fact that we collectively are responsible for this crap, as our habits have indicated that we dont want “long form” even when something like that is important to have and to be able to accurately convey information.
The long form position statements are important to high information voters. Always have been. But a lot of people are swayed more by rapid-fire punches and meme content that doesn’t ask or require a lot of thought. I think that’s the only reason Trump was ever in any races, because he can generate those day In and day out. He’s a rabid narcissist attack dog. But people love to see him throw haymaker after haymaker. In the 2016 gop candidate debates he was behind most of the race. But he’d take one of the top opponents and hammer on them and knock them out of the race, one by one, until he was the only viable candidate left. That’s how he wins.
That’s why I think Harris, as a prosecutor, able to stand in that ring with him and punch him back, will be able to win this fight.
Why is boxing such a natural analogy for this? I never even liked it.
Many candidates do both at the same time, even most of the horrible ones who are lying through their teeth.
The news tends to focus on the part that gets the eyeballs, which as you mentioned is our fault. But if they don’t include their opponent’s faults then it isn’t clear why their thing that is supposed to help is better than the opponents thing that is claimed to help but would be a negative for the public.
“Don’t elect the other guy” campaigning is strongly incentivized by first past the post voting, unfortunately. Not that that’s the sole cause, but… it’s certainly not helping.
There are VERY legitimate reasons to warn against Trump, and Trump then blowhorns the other way, to make it look like both sides are the same.
Republicans make scandals of EVERYTHING, just to make a scandal, remember Obama wore a tan suit? And had Dijon sennep on a sandwich!!
Both sides are not equal in this. Republicans were always worse, and Trump has taken it to another level.
sadly the “info in 3 seconds” problem is only getting worse as more and more people move on from tv news to the only thing that’s worse, getting their news from short form video on platforms like Facebook and tiktok.