{"id":137268,"date":"2018-10-03T23:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T05:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/03\/political-messaging.html"},"modified":"2018-10-03T23:00:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T05:00:52","slug":"political-messaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/03\/political-messaging.html","title":{"rendered":"Political Messaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something I profoundly hate about election time in this current era is the the over-distillation of political commercials into &quot;X will cause Horrible Effect Y! Vote No on X!&quot; with no <i>reasoning,<\/i> no connection between X and Y given, just an assertion of horrible effect.<\/p>\n<p><i>&quot;Bob Smith wants to be governor, but his policies will lead to babies being eaten in the streets!&quot; &quot;Proposition Q will destroy the economy, sell your Mother down to Rio, and pollute your precious bodily fluids.&quot;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>There&#39;s no actual argument, no reasoning, no cause and effect, just EFFECT! HORRIFYING EFFECT! TERRIBLE, AWFUL, GUT-WRENCHING, EFFECT! VOTE NO ON BOB! DEFEAT Q! <i>IT&#39;S OUR ONLY HOPE!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>And I&#39;m intellectually honest enough to despise it even when I think Bob is a jerk and Q is a horrific idea. It still just bugs the snot out of me.<\/p>\n<p>Thank God for the Fast Forward \/ Skip on the DVR &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6608362317823101265\/6608362317532047138'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-Rw9iQTvc-DY\/W7Weg-OTJyI\/AAAAAAAFmvA\/7Z87h5H1MkQjcc_X3oDAFypq-yu6O6dPwCJoC\/giphy%255B1%255D.gif?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/FbyTzofBSXt'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something I profoundly hate about election time in this current era is the the over-distillation of political commercials into &quot;X will cause Horrible Effect Y! Vote No on X!&quot; with no reasoning, no connection between X and Y given, just an assertion of horrible effect. &quot;Bob Smith wants to be governor, but his policies will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/03\/political-messaging.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Political Messaging&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/giphy5B15D.gifimgmax=660.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30337,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/25\/political-preaching-to-the-choir.html","url_meta":{"origin":137268,"position":0},"title":"Political Preaching to the Choir","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 25-Sep-12 8:44am","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm not quite sure whether the Right is the only group that suffers from epistemic closure (though it does seem more pronounced from my not-unbiased perspective). \u00a0More important here, though, is that good ol' end-of-election scramble for the \"undecided\" vote. 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