and it's best to communicate with them using language they understand.
It's not just presidents and powerful senators and congressmen who speak in childish hyperbole these days. The rot has percolated down into, oh I don't know, the CDC whose director is crying about Impending Doom! while we are assured that Democrat administrations are run by cool analytical realists.
No, people are children, and politicians need to talk to them in a language they can understand, thus sounding themselves like children.
If you talk to the people who actually write the speeches politicians make on a regular basis, you'll find out that the golden rule those writers abide by is that they must assume that their audience has an average mental age of 11.
You may be too young to remember, but that is a rather new thing. I grew over the years and decades. The more we look back, the more people were expected to act like adults. Even children. You can still see it in more "primitive" countries in rural areas. Those kids seem amazingly adult to us. But it's just how a kid acts when his maturing hasn't been stifled by "protecting its childhood".
People *nowadays* think it's acceptable. Because it is accepted.
I was going to say that I think we may be seeing it happen already, at least here in the US. The falling flat on your face thing.
I was going to say I think the declining standard of living is the first fall, but really that's more like a kid getting his toy taken away, and not even for a good reason, just because the dad's an asshole.
I was going to say that Trump would be another fall on the face, but really he was just treated so unfair and anyway it was actually the Faucivirus and Jew lasers that blew up the budget deficit.
I'm anticipating that Biden will be a fall on the face, but who knows, maybe he'll die or something first.
It seems there are still plenty of falls to be taken here. How many more decades might it take? What will the bodycount be by then?
Because politicians are children (Score:4, Insightful)
and it's best to communicate with them using language they understand.
It's not just presidents and powerful senators and congressmen who speak in childish hyperbole these days. The rot has percolated down into, oh I don't know, the CDC whose director is crying about Impending Doom! while we are assured that Democrat administrations are run by cool analytical realists.
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No, people are children, and politicians need to talk to them in a language they can understand, thus sounding themselves like children.
If you talk to the people who actually write the speeches politicians make on a regular basis, you'll find out that the golden rule those writers abide by is that they must assume that their audience has an average mental age of 11.
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No, people do not.
You may be too young to remember, but that is a rather new thing.
I grew over the years and decades. The more we look back, the more people were expected to act like adults. Even children.
You can still see it in more "primitive" countries in rural areas. Those kids seem amazingly adult to us. But it's just how a kid acts when his maturing hasn't been stifled by "protecting its childhood".
People *nowadays* think it's acceptable. Because it is accepted.
And that's the problem. If you treat the
Re:Because politicians are children (Score:1)
I was going to say that I think we may be seeing it happen already, at least here in the US. The falling flat on your face thing.
I was going to say I think the declining standard of living is the first fall, but really that's more like a kid getting his toy taken away, and not even for a good reason, just because the dad's an asshole.
I was going to say that Trump would be another fall on the face, but really he was just treated so unfair and anyway it was actually the Faucivirus and Jew lasers that blew up the budget deficit.
I'm anticipating that Biden will be a fall on the face, but who knows, maybe he'll die or something first.
It seems there are still plenty of falls to be taken here. How many more decades might it take? What will the bodycount be by then?