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.
People who take time out of their day and go out of their way to listen to a politician give a speech don't have an *average* mental age of 11, they have a ceiling on their mental age of less than 11.
A properly functioning member of a properly functioning society shouldn't need to even think about government or politics. To the extent that I ever think of government or politics, it's almost always in the context of how they're stealing from me, how they're failing to perform one or more of the duties we by
No. I wish this was true, but no. The sad reality is that we have vested so much authority and control over our daily lives in government, that what they think or say impacts our lives. A lot. Amazon is a favorite punching bag of these progressive politicians, so why shouldnt it argue back? Amazon has a US-wide $15 minimum wage, and healthcare for all its employees. The proposals these senators make wouldnt change Amazons finances even a bit. It already meets or beats those metrics.
We will always need government for the same reason we'll always need police and courts. Humans are shitty and their behavior needs to be moderated. For that same reason, the masses will always need to be fully aware of what the government is doing, why it's doing that, etc. There really has never been a time without government - even paleolithic tribes had rulers. Likewise there will never be a time when government just disappears, or magically works perfectly, unless we figure out how to make a perfect mac
I did not suggest government itself was not necessary. I am suggesting it be confined to public safety and justice (police), adjudicating disputes (civil courts), and national defense (military for defensive purposes only), and basic infrastructure (roads and bridges and water pipes, though I think infrastructure should be 100% in the hands of local and state governments and not the fed).
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.
Re: Because politicians are children (Score:2, Interesting)
People who take time out of their day and go out of their way to listen to a politician give a speech don't have an *average* mental age of 11, they have a ceiling on their mental age of less than 11.
A properly functioning member of a properly functioning society shouldn't need to even think about government or politics. To the extent that I ever think of government or politics, it's almost always in the context of how they're stealing from me, how they're failing to perform one or more of the duties we by
Re: Because politicians are children (Score:2)
Politicians rail agains
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We will always need government for the same reason we'll always need police and courts. Humans are shitty and their behavior needs to be moderated. For that same reason, the masses will always need to be fully aware of what the government is doing, why it's doing that, etc. There really has never been a time without government - even paleolithic tribes had rulers. Likewise there will never be a time when government just disappears, or magically works perfectly, unless we figure out how to make a perfect mac
Re: Because politicians are children (Score:1)