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Cracks me up too because a being 'too smart' is the same as being 'too dumb to know how to win.'
People want to believe that politics is all about being smart, but really it's about being able to read people and figure out what they want. That's why Trump won and that's why Palis won the WR election.
He had people working for him who understood how to talk to people (via PM) to get the votes he needed. We weren't stroking ourselves off in the thread because that doesn't work (source: Panamaican and JVS's disastrous campaigns).
What works is getting down to eye level with people, reading them and telling them what they want to hear. Of the 15 or so votes I secured for Palis, 10 of them did so just on the basis of how much they didn't like JVS and how I played to that.
That's politics.
Not just going 'oh hurr durr I'm soo smurt vote 4 me or ur dumb!!1! lolzz.'
The last 3 presidents didn't get in by talking about how smart they were, they got in by finding a message that resonated with the public. Same thing Trump and Palis did. It's really amazing how far off the mark the modern liberal is when it comes to how to actually do this shit
People want to believe that politics is all about being smart, but really it's about being able to read people and figure out what they want. That's why Trump won and that's why Palis won the WR election.
He had people working for him who understood how to talk to people (via PM) to get the votes he needed. We weren't stroking ourselves off in the thread because that doesn't work (source: Panamaican and JVS's disastrous campaigns).
What works is getting down to eye level with people, reading them and telling them what they want to hear. Of the 15 or so votes I secured for Palis, 10 of them did so just on the basis of how much they didn't like JVS and how I played to that.
That's politics.
Not just going 'oh hurr durr I'm soo smurt vote 4 me or ur dumb!!1! lolzz.'
The last 3 presidents didn't get in by talking about how smart they were, they got in by finding a message that resonated with the public. Same thing Trump and Palis did. It's really amazing how far off the mark the modern liberal is when it comes to how to actually do this shit