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Sheesh.... "Them" includes well over a hundred billion people. I have a hard time seeing this sort of dichotomy along political lines.
Besides, most scientists and stone-hearted atheists are, guess what, liberals. Liberals don't tend to listen to talk radio as much as conservatives, which could only be stomached by people who need their egos stroked with constant propaganda.
That said, I would guess that heavy partisans in both parties are more emotional than rational. The need to "feel" right, so they choose their facts accordingly. I read posts like that every day here.
I'd add that the notion that one group is more emotional than another is less interesting than what the emotions are. Kindness? Empathy? Anger? Contempt? Humor? Joy? Conviction?
No war would be won without emotion, no marathon won, no fight finished, no mountain climbed., And no society would be worth living in without it.
I'm conservative and I would be the first to admit that empathy is simply not something I have. I have always been logical to the point of being a bit cold at times. It's simply how I am made and I'm okay with that because there's always a foil out there on the left for people like me. I am not without emotion or sympathy but empathy, that ability to actually feel what another is feeling? Nope. Not all me.
In deciding where I am politically, I know that the right side of the spectrum is where I belong. However, I think when you get to the far right, you do start to see emotion overruling logic. So, I'm firmly right of center but not to an extreme as the very far right annoys me with about the same intensity as the far left because both are ruled by emotion versus logic. I do see more of the left spectrum ruled by emotion though versus the right even when not talking about extremes on the left.
But yet Data Driven Government, making policy decisions based upon numbers and data analysis, is largley utilized by Democrates. It was heavily utilized by Clinton, tossed aside by W Bush, and is HUGE in progressive city governments these days.
But yet Data Driven Government, making policy decisions based upon numbers and data analysis, is largley utilized by Democrates. It was heavily utilized by Clinton, tossed aside by W Bush, and is HUGE in progressive city governments these days.
Ah yes, Data Driven Government also known as the famous red tape. Effectively utilized in business and absolutely screwed up when done by the government. By the way, the government has never actually implemented the processes properly and you think that's something to brag about?
An example. Decide you're going to build a ship for the Navy. Due to the onerous and overly complicated red tape (thanks to 'data driven government'), that takes five years to even plan and because of that same data driven government, everything right down to the circuits cards are planned out. People say 'yay, we're doing great planning - see all of my paperwork to prove it?' Then they build the ship - to that five year old plan. Cost oodles and oodles of taxpayer dollars but that's okay because they're building it to that paperwork from data driven government. You know the very first thing a ship does after it's built? Have every system removed and replaced because it has to be modernized because by the time the Navy actually gets it, it's woefully out of date. That's what data driven government gets you. Like I said, an idea utilized in business and screwed up when done by government. But hey, it's a catchy name.
Have you ever read the transcripts from the trial? It is long past time that man needed to be put down.
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