<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Adrian wrote:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px">Of course, you have to do it well. Most people don't care enough to</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px">try, or know that they can. It does require skill at communicating</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px">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! </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px">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).</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px">bill w</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Adrian Tymes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com" target="_blank">atymes@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 9:33 AM, William Flynn Wallace<br>
<<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> So - run based on pr and Hollywood, and govern based on scientific data, or<br>
> at least as close as you can come.<br>
<br>
</span>It is entirely possible to do both. In some ways it's even easier<br>
than doing just one or the other: doing Hollywood PR based on<br>
observable scientific facts means the audience needs no suspension of<br>
disbelief.<br>
<br>
Of course, you have to do it well. Most people don't care enough to<br>
try, or know that they can. It does require skill at communicating<br>
the science so that people won't make too much of the exceptions,<br>
glitches, and oddities (such as that global warming is far from evenly<br>
distributed, so it doesn't always mean local warming - but it does<br>
mean more extreme weather in most cases, ice cap melting, and so on).<br>
<br>
But no, most people only bother with communicating lies well (but lies<br>
only last so long) or communicating facts poorly (and getting easily<br>
misinterpreted).<br>
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