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Friday, August 19, 2016
John Richard Cookson — 5 Ways the GOP Can Win Votes—No Candidates Necessary!
Behavioral psych, specifically psychological priming. Of course, it applies to the Dems, too, but some of these tactics are particularly suitable for the GOP.
What is particularly interesting is the way it shows how humans are may have less freedom of choice than they suppose and that persuasion techniques are powerful, as Scott Adams has been saying all along.
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5 Ways the GOP Can Win Votes—No Candidates Necessary!
John Richard Cookson
Jamie Galbraith's take on the breakdown of the old left-right divide.
ReplyDeleteJamie Galbraith would find some answers if he read some of Bill Mitchell's blog posts. So long as the Left capitulates on economic policy, they have nothing to contribute.
ReplyDeleteDiEM25 is a vehicle where alternative policies can be developed, but it is tied to the success or failure of the EUropean project. Better hope they have lifeboats.
The Right will break up the EU or the Fascist Right will save it.
No amount of "priming" would get Canadians to vote for either Trump or Clinton. I'm not denying the effect of marketing, but there are limits to persuasion when the only candidates are a crook and a clown.
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