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  • Dems are just too smart for us!

    From Sen Hirono - a first class idiot...

    Sen. Hirono: Democrats Have a Hard Time "Connecting" With People Because Of "How Smart We Are"

    Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) said Democrats have a difficult time "connecting" with voters because of "how smart we are" that "we know so much." Hirono was interviewed by journalist Dahlia Lithwick at the 'Bend Towards Justice' conference in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.

    "We're really good at shoving out all the information that touch people here (points to head) but not here (points to heart)," Hirono said of Democrats.

    "I've been saying it at all of our Senate Democratic retreats that we need to speak to the heart not in a manipulative way, not in a way that brings forth everybody's fears and resentments but truly to speak to the hearts so that people know that we’re actually on their side," the Senator said.

    "We have a really hard time doing that," Hirono lamented, "and one of the reasons it was told to me at one of our retreats was that we Democrats know so much, that is true. And we have kind of have to tell everyone how smart we are and so we have a tendency to be very left brain."

    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi...rt_we_are.html
    Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

  • #2
    Deliberately ironic typo in the thread title?
    Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
    But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
    Than a fool in the eyes of God


    From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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    • #3
      Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
      Deliberately ironic typo in the thread title?
      What are you talking about?
      Last edited by seer; 12-06-2018, 01:43 PM.
      Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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      • #4
        Originally posted by seer View Post
        What are you taking about?
        taking about




        taking about




        taking about

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Chrawnus View Post
          I shouldn't post drunk!
          Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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          • #6
            Originally posted by seer View Post
            What are you talking about?
            No fair changing it! It ruins my hilariously witty observation!
            Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
            But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
            Than a fool in the eyes of God


            From "Fools Gold" by Petra

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            • #7
              The ironic thing is that Democrats don't "talk to the head" - they are all about appealing to emotions. Just look at all of their issues and how they try to use shame on people and call people racists and bigot and want to be inclusive and hug everyone and everyone can have a trophy and be any gender they want to be, yada, yada.

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              • #8
                Democrats Have a Hard Time "Connecting" With People Because Of "How Smart We Are"


                Isn't there a name for this? Dunning-Kruger effect or some such thing?
                Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Jedidiah View Post
                  Democrats Have a Hard Time "Connecting" With People Because Of "How Smart We Are"


                  Isn't there a name for this? Dunning-Kruger effect or some such thing?
                  Arrogance?

                  I'm always still in trouble again

                  "You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
                  "Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
                  "Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman

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                  • #10
                    Reminds me of the joke (slightly modified to fit the audience)....


                    Senator Hirono was driving through Texas, and was passing an insane asylum when she got a flat tire. Her aids jumped out to change the tire under the watchful gaze of an inmate standing on the other side of the fence.

                    When the aid went to put the spare on, he noticed he was missing the lug nuts. Couldn't find them anywhere!

                    [CURSE WORD], yelled Hirono - we'll be late for my speaking engagement, and we're stuck here til we get a tow truck!

                    The inmate spoke up --- "why don't you just take one lug nut from each of the other three wheels, and put the spare on with those?"

                    Hirono was amazed, and said, "Wow - that's BRILLIANT - what are you doing in there?"

                    The inmate replied, "Lady, I'm here because I'm crazy, not STUPID!"

                    congress_homeland_security_22022_c0-393-4500-3016_s885x516.jpg
                    The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Jedidiah View Post
                      Isn't there a name for this? Dunning-Kruger effect or some such thing?
                      Yes. Though I suspect backwards to what you mean. Dunning and Kruger found that intelligent people and experts would often assume the abilities of those who they interacted with were higher than they really were, because they tended to assume everyone else was smart and competent like they were, and as a result communication could suffer.

                      Though it is their other finding that is more commonly referenced, but which doesn't apply in this context: That ignorant people assume they are much more informed than they are because they are ignorant about how much they don't know.
                      "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                      "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                      "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by seer View Post
                        Dems are just too smart for us!
                        Well yes.

                        Apart from Chuck Schumer who seems to be an A-grade dunce, whose idea of negotiating with McConnell is to give McConnell everything he wants repeatedly in exchange for nothing.

                        "We're really good at shoving out all the information that touch people here (points to head) but not here (points to heart)," Hirono said of Democrats.
                        Yeah, Dems have a bit of a tendency to get a bit wonky and over-intellectual on policy details. Whereas Republicans have a tendency to chant "lock her up", or fear-monger about imaginary ISIS agents from the middle east who are Totally hiding in a small caravan of a few central american asylum seekers.

                        Reminds me of a short vid I watched yesterday: Psychiatrist: Trump Supporters Think Like Five Year Olds

                        Last edited by Starlight; 12-06-2018, 05:51 PM.
                        "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                        "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                        "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                          Well yes.
                          Well no, and remember who made the claim, Hirono, a first class idiot.
                          Atheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...

                          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                            Well yes.

                            Apart from Chuck Schumer who seems to be an A-grade dunce, who's idea ...
                            ...whose idea....
                            The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by seer View Post
                              Well no, and remember who made the claim... a first class idiot.
                              Yes, I did see you were the thread-starter.
                              "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                              "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                              "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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