Identifying, Caring About, Solving

[George Rice]

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Most people vote for the person with the least negatives

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Most people don't vote, followed by people who vote for the party they are a member of (which is usually based upon their parents, religion, georgraphic location, and other random stuff) followed by people who vote because of charm/look/height, followed by people who look at the issues.

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Obviously I meant of those who vote and don't automatically vote the party line (or one-issue types like the right-to-lifers). And this usually comes down to money issues (business=republicans, labor=democrats, etc.)

"Issues" are what the rest of the people want you to think they vote on, but it comes down to least negatives for most of them. Hence why campaigns spend so much on negative ads. It's ultimately what decides the election in close races.

[andyfox]

"Why do people worry so much about whether their representatives do the first two things regarding the country's problems but not about their ability to do the third?"

Which people do this?

Also, the president of the U.S. is the king of the world.

[seemorenuts]

I would force Canada to proactively recruit 300M Russian women and 300 Chinese men to emigrate there, creating a housing boom and an explosion of happiness; catalysing a cascade of world peace. No typo.

Ah, the profund (Romanian) perturbations of the pitter-patter of perfervid positivity...

[Bubble Bully]

The US is not designed like a 3rd world country; A regime change doesn't mean that the country does a 360 and completely change. We vote based on emotion and selfishness.

[seemorenuts]

Off topic in reference to my previous post #9596998:

I used profund though I was thinking about fecund but it starts with an eff.

I've been misspelling separate as seperate for a few years now.

Why are there two medical terms, 'separator' and 'seperator'
yet only the former exists in common usage?

Anyone know?

Also, the joke was that it'd take one Chinese man to satisfy a million Russian women, don't laugh all at once.

[Mickey Brausch]

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Identifying,
Caring About,
Solving
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Why do people worry so much about whether their representatives do the first two things regarding the country's problems but not about their ability to do the third? Sure the president has expert advisors. But they often disagree. And only highly intelligent people are fully capable of evaluating the arguments pro and con. Maybe even occasionally coming up with their own, creative, ingenious solution.


[/ QUOTE ]Identifying and Caring About are matters of perception, i.e. communication.

Solving is a matter of action.

You can, of course, fool people, through the appropriate communication of your actions, into believing you are solving things, and solving them right. (Let this be a mere technicality in terminology.)

More importantly, oftentimes in politics, almost quantum physics-like, the first two influence the third. You know why.

Mickey Brausch