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Shawn's avatar

I agree entirely on messaging. However, I do not agree on 'popularism.' Mainly, because we just had a popularist candidate in Virginia run on those things, and he lost. Popularism on its own is no way to govern. The technocratic, impartial, alienistic approach to government is not popular.

But you're dead on when to messaging. Most voters don't even know that Biden signed a stimulus this year, and that's his only achievement! Liberals are too focused on data and not enough on feelings.

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Liberal Cynic's avatar

"Liberals are too focused on data and not enough on feelings."

Which is ironic since we're the ones often accused of being squishy, snowflake crybabies.

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Shawn's avatar

It's a different kind of feelings. Liberals are focused on how things make individuals feel, rather than how individuals make other individuals feel. Example, it's bad if society causes people to feel oppressed, due to the systems that exist. But they never bother to think about how people might feel in regards to their plans or ideas. They rely too much on data and assume that if people just understood it, that they'd want to join on. The concept that people can do things that aren't in their interest, that people will cut off their noses to spite their face, often eludes them.

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