People are not necessarily good at judging policy (otherwise socialism would never have worked).
BUT, they do tend to have a "bullshit detector" or "psycho detector" that they've developed over their lives. This is why Amber Herd was doing so well against Johnny Depp until her trail got televised. Then everybody saw through her bullshit almost instantly. This is one of the reasons why so many courts fight to guarantee that juries physically see people testify in front of them, not even over videos or recorded statements.
Not talking about topics allows people to gather an intuition on somebody who is no longer trying to hide who they are, because they don't think the topic is important. You can tell a lot from somebody who is talking off the cuff about something they care about.
But people like Harris can't do that because they are fake people. She's a complete fraud, and she knows it, and she's so insecure that she requires constant affirmation and is wildly intolerant of anyone who doesn't placate her. Or worse, like Walz, they fucking crazy. I maintain that Walz is extremely violent. The little reaction he gave to his disabled kid on stage was something I've seen in a hundred abusive parents. His, dumb, plucky, middle-school football coach act wasn't going to fool me after that. That's a dude who throws chairs at walls when he gets angry. His nearly shaking & red with rage response in the VP debate had me fucking nervous for Vance's safety.
Nor should they really be. Policy requires an extreme understanding of a plethora of industries, human psychology, and international trade among many other factors. Not only that, but also how they will interact with other policies, law, and bureaucracy already on the books. Its an absurd ask of people.
That's the point of representatives in government. You elect someone whose entire job is to know that and then they make decisions on it for you with their expertise. And that bullshit detector is how you decide which representative will act in your interest instead of their own.
Where that system failed was in the power of the media controlled narratives, as well as the increasing globalization leading to people becoming disconnected from both their community and reality.
That and the overweighted power of the Federal Government compared to the State and Local, which is so far removed from an individual's life that neither you nor they can properly vet each other. But you know, at least Lincoln "freed" the slaves so totally worth it there.
This goes back to my arguments of a stratified government. The federal government shouldn't make laws outside of direct regulation of the states, and the states should be voting on that and only that alone.
Your local government is set up to settle your disputes. Your regional government settles disputes of the local governments. The state settles disputes of regional governments. The federal government settles disputes of states. Voting goes one step up, enforcement goes one step down. The 10th amendment needs to be aggressively strengthened.
People are not necessarily good at judging policy (otherwise socialism would never have worked).
BUT, they do tend to have a "bullshit detector" or "psycho detector" that they've developed over their lives. This is why Amber Herd was doing so well against Johnny Depp until her trail got televised. Then everybody saw through her bullshit almost instantly. This is one of the reasons why so many courts fight to guarantee that juries physically see people testify in front of them, not even over videos or recorded statements.
Not talking about topics allows people to gather an intuition on somebody who is no longer trying to hide who they are, because they don't think the topic is important. You can tell a lot from somebody who is talking off the cuff about something they care about.
But people like Harris can't do that because they are fake people. She's a complete fraud, and she knows it, and she's so insecure that she requires constant affirmation and is wildly intolerant of anyone who doesn't placate her. Or worse, like Walz, they fucking crazy. I maintain that Walz is extremely violent. The little reaction he gave to his disabled kid on stage was something I've seen in a hundred abusive parents. His, dumb, plucky, middle-school football coach act wasn't going to fool me after that. That's a dude who throws chairs at walls when he gets angry. His nearly shaking & red with rage response in the VP debate had me fucking nervous for Vance's safety.
Nor should they really be. Policy requires an extreme understanding of a plethora of industries, human psychology, and international trade among many other factors. Not only that, but also how they will interact with other policies, law, and bureaucracy already on the books. Its an absurd ask of people.
That's the point of representatives in government. You elect someone whose entire job is to know that and then they make decisions on it for you with their expertise. And that bullshit detector is how you decide which representative will act in your interest instead of their own.
Where that system failed was in the power of the media controlled narratives, as well as the increasing globalization leading to people becoming disconnected from both their community and reality.
That and the overweighted power of the Federal Government compared to the State and Local, which is so far removed from an individual's life that neither you nor they can properly vet each other. But you know, at least Lincoln "freed" the slaves so totally worth it there.
This goes back to my arguments of a stratified government. The federal government shouldn't make laws outside of direct regulation of the states, and the states should be voting on that and only that alone.
Your local government is set up to settle your disputes. Your regional government settles disputes of the local governments. The state settles disputes of regional governments. The federal government settles disputes of states. Voting goes one step up, enforcement goes one step down. The 10th amendment needs to be aggressively strengthened.
Paulie walnuts throwing a chair at a window "fucking queers".