<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">John wrote: <span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(34,34,34)">I disagree, recent history indicates the last thing in the world you want are experts that know what they're talking about because they might utter truths that the hayseed rednecks in political rallies don't want to hear. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(34,34,34)">NoNoNO - you keep these people strictly behind the scenes, so as not to confuse anyone, as you said. But if you win you have to have a program that is much elevated from campaign rhetoric, and that is where these people come in.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(34,34,34)">So - run based on pr and Hollywood, and govern based on scientific data, or at least as close as you can come.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:large;color:rgb(34,34,34)">bill w </span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 10:53 AM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 9:36 PM, William Flynn Wallace </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>I think what has to happen for anything to change is to find a likely candidate and pour tens of millions into his fund, and start a new political party.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">I like to think I could vote for a candidate supported by a majority of Extropians, but I'm no longer certain I could.</font></div></div><span class=""><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>George Wallace, no relation, did pretty good with "There's not a dime's worth of difference" Re the two parties.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">Wallace said that in 1968 when the election was between Nixon and Hubert Humphrey, and looking back with a historical perspective I think most would have to say Wallace was wrong, there was a dime's worth of difference between the two parties. And in 2016 the difference was even more clearcut; behind one was the possibility of becoming a below average Presadent and behind the other was the certainty of a increase in existential danger. Guess who won. </font></div></div><span class=""><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>The thing is to me, as a social psychologist, that the most important thing is name recognition, </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">Yes, that's why a TV </div>game show host<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> is now the most powerful man in the world.</div></font><span class=""><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>Don't have planks. Be vague at all costs. You want sound bites, not details easily argued with, which give away your strategy. You have to keep it simple, because there are more simple people than anyone else. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">There is no better evidence that you are correct than the most recent election, one produced detailed position papers and the other simple (in both meanings of the word "simple") soundbites. Guess who won. </font></div><font size="4"> </font></div><span class=""><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>Assemble a team of experts on every subject; mixture of left and right, libertarian and authoritarian.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">I disagree, recent history indicates the last thing in the world you want are experts that know what they're talking about because they might utter truths that the hayseed rednecks in political rallies don't want to hear. </font></div></div><span class=""><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>I am behind Warren; lots and lots of people wanted a woman but not Hillary; not ready for a black, though if I had had the chance I would have voted for Barbara Jordan.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">You could do worse. Much worse.</font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">John K Clark</div> </font></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div><br></div></div>
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