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Bill Katz's avatar

Listen up and listen well. I’m mostly concerned about optics and optics often determines elections. You guys get so weighted down on context. I’m trying to reach your brain cells to suggest that winning is more important then minutiae. Capici?

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KEM's avatar

Here we have an exquisite example of talking down to your audience, and missing the opportunity to persuade others to your viewpoint. What wins more elections than optics? Truth. In the end, truth always wins. Optics founded on lies cannot stand scrutiny of a close look (pun intended). Can't agree with you, Bill, either in content or in tone. Tone especially here, where the fundamental idea is to equip ourselves with facts.

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Also… another afterthought, we should be trying to win over traditional republicans because many of them can’t stand Trump. But we won’t get there if we don’t understand what perhaps the majority or almost majority wants; which is border security.

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KEM's avatar

Bill, but if we put the numbers of immigrants in perspective, we would realize that it is a totally manageable problem that simply needs adequate funding of a system to handle it. It is is not a crisis; America is not being overrun. Then you talk about the fact that bills to provide such a system have been thwarted, and ask people who thwarted it. Orderly management of the immigration system is an idea that supports traditional Republican values. IOW, we can totally support the best of traditional Republican values, combat the hysteria about immigration, and urge people to support candidates who are for orderly border control all at the same time. it sounds to me like you have bought into the crisis mentality instead of management mode. And, if you look at the programs being implemented in South America and Africa, long term easing of the causes of immigration is also being worked on.

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Bill Katz's avatar

Maybe but this isn’t my main point. I want us to win massively if possible and I’m cognoscent of dirty tricks. We are now living in the era of AI so put that into the mix.

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Ken, Btw, Truth is a tentative concept.

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And also, I’m a satirist and I seek to poke fun I’m not a serious journalist.

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Bill Katz's avatar

Hold the phone. I’m not here to think I’m going to convince anyone to change their minds. People are too hard wired. But that won’t stop me from tapping away like everyone else including you.

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