JohnQPublic
22nd November 2016, 03:33 PM
Persuasion Versus Populism (http://blog.dilbert.com/post/153480921421/persuasion-versus-populism)
Scott Adams
...as I have been teaching you for the past year, people can be living in different movies while physically inhabiting the same spacetime. In your movie, Trump might be a populist as the experts are saying. But in my movie, Trump is a Master Persuader. And the script for my movie fits the observed facts just as well as yours. Maybe better.
The Master Persuader filter says Trump didn’t identify and match the preferences of the people so much as cause them to think the way they are thinking. My filter on the election says that Trump’s skill for persuasion could have given him the victory with DIFFERENT policies than the ones he championed – such as Bernie Sanders policies.
He (Trump)[/B] may have won on the left with Bernie's platform, but could not have won with Cruz', Bush's, Rubio's, Clinton's or practically any other. So yes there is a component of persuader, but he is not magic.- JQP]
[I]...Evolution only cares if we survive and procreate. In this case, people who think Trump is a populist can have babies, and so can the people who think we elected Hitler, and so can the people who think Trump is a well-meaning Master Persuader. That’s three different movies. Evolution doesn’t care which worldview is right, if any. It only cares that we can make more babies. And we can...
[I]...The Master Persuader movie did a good job in predicting Trump’s success. It also predicts Trump moving to the middle, persuading Pence to be more LGBTQ-friendly, and good relations with other countries. That’s the movie plot I see coming...
[Moving from the middle from where? The left? The right? Pence LGBTQ friendly, not too likely, but we will see. Nothing will surprise me at this point.- JQP]
So how can you tell whether or not you are in the wrong movie? I’ll give you a few clues.
Consider…
If Trump didn’t win because of his persuasion skills, which other Republican candidate can you imagine beating Clinton?
[None! I did not think Cruz could beat her. I agree on that point. Trump won because he spoke truth, and spoke what everyone (sane) was thinking- JQP]
[Worth a read. I agree with some of his points, but not his hypothesis. JQP]
Scott Adams
...as I have been teaching you for the past year, people can be living in different movies while physically inhabiting the same spacetime. In your movie, Trump might be a populist as the experts are saying. But in my movie, Trump is a Master Persuader. And the script for my movie fits the observed facts just as well as yours. Maybe better.
The Master Persuader filter says Trump didn’t identify and match the preferences of the people so much as cause them to think the way they are thinking. My filter on the election says that Trump’s skill for persuasion could have given him the victory with DIFFERENT policies than the ones he championed – such as Bernie Sanders policies.
He (Trump)[/B] may have won on the left with Bernie's platform, but could not have won with Cruz', Bush's, Rubio's, Clinton's or practically any other. So yes there is a component of persuader, but he is not magic.- JQP]
[I]...Evolution only cares if we survive and procreate. In this case, people who think Trump is a populist can have babies, and so can the people who think we elected Hitler, and so can the people who think Trump is a well-meaning Master Persuader. That’s three different movies. Evolution doesn’t care which worldview is right, if any. It only cares that we can make more babies. And we can...
[I]...The Master Persuader movie did a good job in predicting Trump’s success. It also predicts Trump moving to the middle, persuading Pence to be more LGBTQ-friendly, and good relations with other countries. That’s the movie plot I see coming...
[Moving from the middle from where? The left? The right? Pence LGBTQ friendly, not too likely, but we will see. Nothing will surprise me at this point.- JQP]
So how can you tell whether or not you are in the wrong movie? I’ll give you a few clues.
Consider…
If Trump didn’t win because of his persuasion skills, which other Republican candidate can you imagine beating Clinton?
[None! I did not think Cruz could beat her. I agree on that point. Trump won because he spoke truth, and spoke what everyone (sane) was thinking- JQP]
[Worth a read. I agree with some of his points, but not his hypothesis. JQP]