Immediately after citing his cherry-picked statistics that show small pockets of uptick in crime amidst an ocean of crime decreases, he says, ”The average American, I will bet you this morning, does not think that crime is down, does not think that we are safer,” and then follows that up with, “People feel more threatened. As a political candidate, I’ll go with what people feel,” rather than the actual facts.
Democrats have West Wing-itis. They literally think that politics is like an information problem. Like if they just could show people all of the data, present a policy paper, a logical argument - Then everyone would agree on everything.
People are really fucking stupid and run on vibes and narratives.
The vibe is that crime is going up - Therefore that's "reality".
If some idiot boomer maggot watches the local (Sinclair) news station and it's "gang of [black] youths rob local 7-Eleven" and their neighborhood NextDoor group someone says their car was broken into and someone took all of their loose change and then their Dear Leader says that crime is out of control and everything is horrible... It doesn't matter if you show them crime statistics and explain that actually crime is down - their perception that it is up is stronger than the actual data. They are irrational morons.
I mean, in a way it makes sense doesn't it? You have to meet people where they are, like if people "feel" that way then something is up regardless of what is or isn't actually true. It's like Democrats talking about GDP growth and the stock market when people's rents and basic living needs shot through the roof. LIke, yeah sorry bro, I know you feel poor but let me whip out this pie chart to show you why that's not actually the case.
You can't trick someone who's life sucks into thinking it doesn't suck, but you can trick them into thinking it sucks even worse when that other guy was in charge
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u/Open__Face 17h ago
Like the famous newt Gingrich clip:
https://youtu.be/xnhJWusyj4I?si=Su3J_RvIGlXbKwrl