July 09, 2007
A brain researcher tells them not to attempt to appeal to people's rational, intellectual capacity. They're too smart for that. Everything we've ever said about Democrats appealing to the lowest common denominator while avoiding icky things like facts, details, rational thought, reason and intelligence have been confirmed. Hell, being hyperemotional has been their political leitmotif for decades.
He writes that when Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts let a Swift-boat veterans group drag his reputation through the mud (2004), when Al Gore put a nation to sleep with his talk of lockboxes and Medicare actuaries (2000), and when Michael S. Dukakis said he didn't believe in the death penalty even in the event of his wife's rape and murder (1988), Democrats were exhibiting their single worst tendency: intellectual dispassion.FACTS BE DAMNED -THE EGO MUST BE PLACATED!! Appeal to their feeeeeeeelings, Democrats. Less brainpower required, easier to bowl them over with your propaganda, failed utopian fantasies, political agendas, etc.That style is ballot-box poison, said Westen. "The political brain is an emotional brain," he said. "It prefers conclusions that are emotionally satisfying rather than conclusions that match the data."
In other words, pretend everyone is a three-year old child and just run with it.
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