If You are Swayed by an Ad or a Debate, You Are a Pathetic Moron...

[ItsMyParty]

If a person had even a small awareness of what is happening in their government and world scene, there is no ad nor debate that could "sway them"...particulary since both are just full of surface garbage. But, unfortunately, a very large chunk of our population are so ignorant that some stupid, distorted ad can literally buy their vote. Watch the "6%". I've watched this particular group for months. They go with whatever direction the 'hype' is going. Tonight they are the targeted audience of the after-game pronouncements on "who won" by the whores. Let's see who moves about 6 points in the polls after (right now they are stuck on the Bush side coming out of the convention and the swifty ads). If they move, watch for ads decrying Kerry as Rosemary's Baby.......... And about 2 days before the election, Kerry needs ads revealing that tests confirm Bush is Satan.

[TexasSissy]

1. Normally I'd disagree. But this year it's different. And I TOTALLY agree

[sui generis]

2. unfortunately many people get their decisioning info from soundbites

No matter how badly we want our friends and neighbors to be educated, we can't change reality that they don't engage in critical thinking, they don't watch the news, have a general acceptance of authority on its face, didn't watch the convention but got the 30 second wrap up, and won't watch the debates but will get the 6:00 a.m. recap the next day.

That's why we call them sheeple.

[andino]

3. Let's be honest

Most people don't even vote. That being said, a lot of those people are starting to open their eyes and all they see is the Kerry bashing media. If that perception is changed by watching the man without that spin then I say GREAT! I am wanting people to change their perceptions on Kerry. Seeing how Bush has misrepresented Kerrys positions on just about everything and also seeing as how Bush has had the lions share of the media, I'd love for people to get a good honest debate to sway them away from Bush.

[snoogins]

4. Thats why KKKarl Rove targets the stupid and ignorant

with the Refuck reich wing nazi propoganda machine. Stupid people believe anything about "Libruls" and the mass conservative good puppy press will perpetuate it.

[demwing]

5. Thats too harsh

maybe true for an ad, but not for a debate.

Actually, sometimes an ad CAN make a difference. An ad, after all, is an idea, or a group of ideas, presented in a multi-media format.

If ideas don't change minds, then what the hell does?

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

6. I'm not sure about this

My ex in 2000--sweet young thing, just 19 years old, only child of a single mom who was somewhere between a Repuke and a crank fiend. No college, just the usual shitty public high school experience.

She had no idea about politics. She watched the first Gore/Bush debate with me and came away utterly horrified of Bush. Despite a near-total lack of education or political interest, she decided he was a duplicitous, snickering monster who wanted to start two wars.

Even people who don't pay attention the rest of the time--morons though they might be FOR not paying attention--are still capable of discerning an untrustworthy, evil, dangerous salesman. We'd have died out as soon as civilization was invented if we did not have this innate ability.

[cheshire]

7. I heard somewhere that if your child or your dog dislike someone listen.

They have an instinct that is unfiltered and quite sharp.

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

8. Gavin de Becker's opinion on this

Have you read him? He's a Threat Assessment Manager for presidents, celebrities, etc., the guy who reads stalker mail and sifts out the dangerous ones.

He says what the dog or child is reading is not character, but the master/parent's subconscious, to which he/she is intensely attuned. So yes, trust it, but what you are trusting is your own instincts without the white noise of maturity, politeness, prejudice, etc.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

9. "I'm George Bush and I approved this mess..."

Anyone notice that on the new Bush ads being run on CNN (the ones claiming that Kerry and Congressional "liberals" cut funding for defense) has that little disclaimer at the end that lags a few seconds behind the ad? The result is that they cut off Bush in mid-word. Instead of hearing him say the word "message", it comes out as "mess". "I'm George Bush and I approved this mess".