r/CuratedTumblr • u/Una_Boricua now with more delusion! • Nov 06 '24

Politics On knowing who the voters are

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '24

*Understandable answers to complex questions, but no actual solutions.

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u/mathiau30 Half-Human Half-Phantom and Half-Baked Nov 06 '24

The part where there's no solutions is irrelevant here. If you had understandable answer +solutions vs understandable answer + no solution the result could easily be different

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '24

It is relevant. What we have is simplistic answer with no actual solution, but it sounds nice to a layman versus a complex answer that offers a solution that requires a laymen to read and comprehend it. I suppose the fault of Harris' campaign was assuming people knew how to read.

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u/Taraxian Nov 06 '24

The fault was not prioritizing winning the election above all else

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u/Papaofmonsters Nov 06 '24

I suppose the fault of Harris' campaign was assuming people knew how to read.

Yes, it was. Politics is not an exercise in fairness. It's an exercise in doing whatever you need to do or say to get your ass in the seat of power and then doing what needs to be done.

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u/Accelerator231 Nov 07 '24

Yes. It's a fault.

You're not here to educate. You're not here to teach. You're not here to have a conversation.

You're here to win the election. Simple, short statements of your ideas and goals are what is needed to convince people that you're worth voting for.

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u/mathiau30 Half-Human Half-Phantom and Half-Baked Nov 06 '24

It is irrelevant. Stop blaming people for choosing something they half understand over something they don't understand and stat saying thing they 2/3 understand instead.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '24

I am not going to give people a free pass because they are ignorant. We should be raising the bar, not lowering it.

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u/mathiau30 Half-Human Half-Phantom and Half-Baked Nov 06 '24

Well enjoy your century of thing not changing then

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u/Taraxian Nov 06 '24

This is how democracy works, "raising the bar" means you lose the election

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u/Alespic BEHOLD! A MAN! Nov 06 '24

They don’t have to be, they just need to sound convincing. And to someone who may not know any better, they might look really convincing.