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Thanks for correcting my typo. Yes. I've read first hand accounts about what happened in Venezuela. About twenty years ago, Chavez turned a democracy into a di
by kangnkodos 6y ago
Thanks for correcting my typo. Yes.
I've read first hand accounts about what happened in Venezuela. About twenty years ago, Chavez turned a democracy into a dictatorship. How could this possibly happen?
Well, one ingredient was that the people who were against Chavez repeated over and over that the dictator was not logical.
In Venezuela, this type of argument did not persuade Chavez voters. It did the opposite. Chavez won and the country is now a dictatorship.
I see the same thing happening here. Trump supporters with a high school diploma are personally insulted when a bunch of PhD's get together and declare that their candidate is not scientific.
- kangnkodos 6y agoI really didn't explain it yet. Did I? Let me try this. The battle is asymmetric. One side, Trump, is using fear. The other side, Scientific American, is using logic. Fear actually gets voters off their couches and into the voting booth. Logic gets people to nod their heads, but doesn't translate into actual votes.
- mcphage 6y agoWell, they definitely could have bumped the fear component up more, but perhaps Scientific American feels their subscriber base is more likely to respond to reasoning than to fear. “This was a mistake because they weren’t fear-mongery enough” is definitely an interesting take, though.
- kangnkodos 6y agoHaha. I can't imagine them jumping on the fear bandwagon.