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This teaching thing is a terrible comparison. As a teacher you have a captive audience with a (somewhat) agreed upon goal: the student(s) are going to learn som
by PaulDavisThe1st 2y ago
This teaching thing is a terrible comparison. As a teacher you have a captive audience with a (somewhat) agreed upon goal: the student(s) are going to learn something.
This is absolutely not the model for candidate<->electorate relationships in any way. If anything, the elector(ate) wants the candidate to simply tell them things that confirm what they think they already know.
- aydyn 2y agoAre you serious? The entire nation was fully captivated this election cycle.
- PaulDavisThe1st 2y agoCaptivated is not captive, and even if it is etymologically adjacent, most of the electorate did not expect to have to learn about stuff like econometrics ...
- aydyn 2y agoThen I meant captivated AND captive. Why are you being pedantic?
- PaulDavisThe1st 2y agoHow was anybody captive? I didn't see a single campaign ad or watch a single rally, except for a couple of brief excerpts that I chose to. You're missing the critical point: it's not about captive, it's just that this helps with the critical point, which is an expectation of learning taking place, rather than worldviews/prejudices confirmed.
- aydyn 2y agoI see, I missed that nuance in your point.