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Facts and Emotions: Battling A Culture of Lies

Bryan Watson7 months ago02 mins

We need to answer emotion with counter-emotion. If we don’t trigger an emotional response, our facts won’t matter because they won’t be heard.

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Biden Paused – A Missed Opportunity

Bryan Watson10 months ago02 mins

Saturday night would have been the time to shift to a wholly-positive campaign. To inspire voters. To call them to “Yes, we can”, “We Dare to Dream”, and “We have before, we will again”.

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Nobody Likes a Sore Loser

Bryan Watson2 years ago2 years ago010 mins

We all remember that kid — the one on the playground who threw a tantrum when he lost. You called him a “Sore Loser”. And even though you were just kids, you knew — everyone knew — that nobody likes a sore loser. The Republican Party is the party of sore losers.

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Does a Liar Tell the Truth?

Bryan Watson2 years ago02 mins

He’s a liar – a known liar, a fraud, a grifter, a thief. What is the point of asking him a question?

If he’s talking, he’s lying.

He’s a liar.

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Election Fraud is reason enough

Bryan Watson2 years ago03 mins

What gets me is that people say that he has to be expelled IF he is convicted of a crime.

Why is a criminal conviction required?

It is enough that he defrauded the voters. Actual election fraud is reason enough for expulsion.

Where is the caucus that railed about election fraud?

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Message-Making: The Biden Speech

Bryan Watson3 years ago07 mins

The speech is a lesson in the tactics, large and small, that hold a message together and burn your ideas into your audience’s consciousness. Repetition. Litanies. Framing. Promoting your Values, naming the Villain, holding out a Vision.

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“There Is No Accurate Information”

Bryan Watson4 years ago4 years ago06 mins

Because Republicans have such a long history of “voter-phobia”, they were particularly susceptible to claims of “voter fraud”. Since that claim has been popular among Republican spokespeople for decades, Republican voters were easy pickings in 2020.

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Who needs democracy?

Bryan Watson4 years ago4 years ago03 mins

For most people, democracy only exists on election day. And for many people, the vote itself was lost long ago. For them, democracy has no place in their lives. They feel that their vote and their voice already don’t matter.

For them, losing democracy isn’t something to worry about

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2020’s Woke Population

Bryan Watson5 years ago4 years ago03 mins

“I am not sure how we parse out how much of [the result] might have been related to reaction to Clinton and how much of it is motivated by the panic so many Democratic voters seem to be expressing in their desperate search to decide which candidate will beat President Trump,” University of Wisconsin political…

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Is This Heaven?

Bryan Watson5 years ago4 years ago02 mins

But for the 24-hour political newscasters, the Iowa caucus results were a panic moment. And now, 36 hours later, they are still mumbling and grumbling, talking about apps and coding problems and the horror of having to wait.

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