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[Frank Wimberly]

I think of the preferers of poetry as the preferers of simplicity.

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Frank Wimberly

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On Fri, Aug 17, 2018, 5:41 PM uǝlƃ ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> That article paints a fantastic contrast between "speaking to" in an
> ungrounded state vs. "speaking to" in a grounded state.  When speaking to a
> collection of idealists, it's relatively trivial to sidetrack them into
> some region where their evocative triggers are "dog whistles".  But when
> speaking to a collection of skeptics, it's fairly difficult push them into
> an ungrounded region.
>
> But the problem is invariant: that of "speaking to".  Trump beat Clinton,
> hands down, on the "speaking to" front.  "Sophisticated" people, who are
> used to and comfortable with parsing the details of some complicated plan
> or infrastructure, tended to go with Clinton, whereas those of us who would
> prefer our representatives to speak in "poetry", allowing us to fill in the
> [whatever] details, went with Trump.
>
> A fundamental problem these days is "political stalking" and "viral
> memeing".  It's difficult to balance one's presentation to both the nerds
> and the consumers of poetry.  Obama does it fairly well.  Clinton did not.
>
> On 08/17/2018 04:18 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> > Perhaps Texas<
> https://www.thenation.com/article/when-will-the-lone-start-state-turn-blue/>
> is key to putting a stop to all this?
> >
> >
> >
> > On 8/17/18, 4:52 PM, "Friam on behalf of Barry MacKichan" <
> friam-bounces at redfish.com on behalf of barry.mackichan at mackichan.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >     Clusterf**k ?
> >
> >
> >
> >     Oops, sorry, I was thinking of Trump. Also it’s after 5 on a Friday
> >
> >     here on the east coast.
>
> --
> ☣ uǝlƃ
>
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