Shared post - The persuasive power of simplicity
"When Trump famously proposed "Build the wall," it was one of the best examples of persuasion-by-simplicity you will ever see.
"When Trump famously proposed "Build the wall," it was one of the best examples of persuasion-by-simplicity you will ever see.
Being accurate matters for science and for budgeting. Accuracy often requires details and nuance and context and all that stuff.
But persuasion craves simplicity.
...We see this problem for the critics of Critical Race Theory.
They try to argue it is a Marxist worldview, and 95% of the country isn't quite sure that is true, and isn't quite sure why that matters, exactly.
Sounds bad, but perhaps not so bad for left-leaning people.
And that's who the right needs to persuade.
Calling CRT "anti-white" might be close to the truth, but that doesn't matter to persuasion.
Calling CRT "anti-white" might be close to the truth, but that doesn't matter to persuasion.
The "anti-white" critique sounds exactly like a Fox News talking point, and not something moderates would take seriously...Read all.
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