[ExI] what to do politics

[William Flynn Wallace]

Adrian wrote:

Of course, you have to do it well.  Most people don't care enough to
try, or know that they can.  It does require skill at communicating

So to add one more thing to the list of what is needed, add skill at
communication.  Take Reagan:  as an actor he was a great president (screen
actor's guild or some such), and as a president he was a great actor.
Moreover, he was likable. People would not believe that he was lying to
them.  Hillary was very unlikable.  Maybe we need another actor!

More on the name - Libertarian Party - I think this is associated in
people's minds with 'losers' - and not sure of what they believe.  OK, look
it up in Wikipedia and find out that some of them are anarchists.  That
won't do.  So , get a new name (but not the same people who are running the
Libertarian Party).

bill w

On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 9:33 AM, William Flynn Wallace
> <foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So - run based on pr and Hollywood, and govern based on scientific data,
> or
> > at least as close as you can come.
>
> It is entirely possible to do both.  In some ways it's even easier
> than doing just one or the other: doing Hollywood PR based on
> observable scientific facts means the audience needs no suspension of
> disbelief.
>
> Of course, you have to do it well.  Most people don't care enough to
> try, or know that they can.  It does require skill at communicating
> the science so that people won't make too much of the exceptions,
> glitches, and oddities (such as that global warming is far from evenly
> distributed, so it doesn't always mean local warming - but it does
> mean more extreme weather in most cases, ice cap melting, and so on).
>
> But no, most people only bother with communicating lies well (but lies
> only last so long) or communicating facts poorly (and getting easily
> misinterpreted).
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