(February 6, 2017 at 1:06 pm)Aroura Wrote: So even the one you admit was a lie is a "bit of a wash" to you. And I may as well have been talking to a deaf person about polling errors included in the polls, and the fact that nationally, there were very accurate.
Sigh.
Whatever. Carry on.
That's the point of the problem... people have gone absolutely nuts over the little things that should just be jokes. Observe:
Trump's inauguration crowd was almost as big as his hands!
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Instead, I have 8 news sites telling me how this means that he's a fascist and is the second coming of Hitler Hussein Satan.
Important: Perception and presentation account for a great deal in this world. They affect how a person reacts to what is said. When the media uptrumps all kinds of bad polling data and treats it as anything more than a prediction, or, present it in a terribly one-sided light: it has the effect of generating disgust and distrust towards what was said.
You can say that the earth is round all you like... but if you treat people who believe otherwise to ad homs: they ain't gonna be too inclined to hear your truths... however true they may or might not be.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
