If narrating horrors and feeding outrage worked, the left would run the world. It doesn’t.
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En réponse à @anatosaurus
The Right runs much of the world bc it does well financed in-depth messaging & propaganda research. It must show that narrating imaginary horrors like scary immigrants & feeding outrage works. Bc that's what they're doing, more than any1 on the Left is. And it's working for them
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En réponse à @upine
Yes, generating increased fear and resentment makes people more conservative. This is why fear-based messaging works for the right but not for the left.
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En réponse à @anatosaurus
apparently there are mixed findings, bc NextGen found negative ads did work on Dem voters.https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/08/tom-steyers-nextgen-america-releases-major-new-research-on-motivating-young-voters.html …
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En réponse à @upine
Not sure how you draw that conclusion, I've seen full results of this precise study - diff. bet. pos & neg was within MOE, in other words, not conclusive. And "the most persuasive across multiple metrics related to 'power in numbers'."
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En réponse à @anatosaurus
Haven't seen full results. I like your messaging research & wd love to see Dem party hire U full time to do it. Tho I find it very hard to believe only positive messaging works on Dems. If both types of Dem messages get tested exhaustively, I'd expect some of each type wd work
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En réponse à @upine @anatosaurus
The reason it seems to me that certain kinds-- not all- of fear-based messages cd work is: Dems are far too complacent. Dems OUGHT to be more fearful of having Trump types in power. If we were, he wdn't BE in power. Soft warm fuzzy messages seem unlikely to decrease complacency.
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The options aren't fear Trump and fuzzy messages. There are others. When our messages are "not this" "don't that" "stop X" "end Y," it doesn't inspire desire to participate. We can make powerful arguments - call out villains - and say what you can have/get w/us in charge.
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