why evidences abounds of the ability to use uncertainty for political ends?
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TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE ARIGHT: But someone has to make a effort TO MAKE A CHANGE!!!
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Sometimes, wisdom, is just letting it go. \nSometimes wisdom is refusing to empower those that would use surreptitious methods to elicit partial or incomplete response for the mere purpose of making the respondents seem less significant than themselves.
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You are right, an instrument of political practicalities\nalthough its often portrayed as vice versa
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Probability in statistics would agree with your claim to a point of certainty
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Scientific data is ambiguous and conflicting as it pertains to "global warming." Current data only exists for a few hundred years. The rest is from computer "models" which use differing assumptions and yield differing results.\n\nSince no conclusive data exists upon which to base conclusions, actions ought not be based on inconclusive data. Those are facts rarely discussed or admitted globally.
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How else? All political theories are about the governance of human beings. You must have a psychological account of mans nature, regardless of psychological perspective, if you want a theory supported by facts and having predictive power.
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I understand your theory but do not believe it to be true. Dirty politics's have been used by both party's for years, and it just depends on the delivery as to whether it is effective or not.
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Anything's possible.  This is where Occam's Razor comes in quite handy.
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It works.  As long as we, the voters, respond positively to all the trash, politicians will continue to use it.  \n\nThe Internet provides a means to examine some of the claims made, but so too do local and regional news sources. \n\nIf citizens start to responsibly inform themselves most of it can end. You know Abe Lincoln's line  "You may fool all of the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."  Do your homework - don't be the fooled.
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Maybe to confirm it from others, or to get others opinions on the subject?
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Yeahhhhhhhhhhhaaa!  Enough!  One way to keep from making policy and establish procedures that could solve problem and make the world a safe and better place to life.......is to argue endlessly about ideology.\nDemocracy asks that you compromise and respect the process of decision making.
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Statistics can be manipulated to prove or disprove anything you want.  If you want to trust them, you will have to trust whatever entity put them together or look at the same type of statistics from several reliable sources.
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The sum of human experience is finite and share many commonalities. So it is possible to say things in such general terms and yet with some level specific hints that it can pass off as a fortune reading. With people wanting so much to believe in something and hoping for something, that it is easy for opportunists to exploit it.
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I dont think that any of us can offer a legitimate answer to this question right now. This is a topic for qualified scholars to debate far in the future. There are too many factors to consider: socio-political, economical and historical aspects that just cannot be completely understood right now and will become obvious only in retrospect. The answer then will probably be very fascinating. I am truly amazed at how many people have an opinion about something that they have absolutely no expertise. Its all speculation. If you ask someone about advanced mathematics or theoretical physics, they freely admit their ineptitude. But, if you ask them about advanced political science (politics), they suddenly know everything.
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It was a ploy.  They only did that to play on peoples fear so they would vote for Bush.  And it worked.  I think it was horrible to use people like that and more then that, to screw around with people's emotions.  Immanuel Kant (a famous philosopher) said that you should use people as ends and not means.  Which basically said that we should never use people to get other things.  Bush I gets skip that part of being a good human being.
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Its very simple, political beliefs are just like other beliefs, most of them are learned from parents, friends, and peers.  Many people don't even understand all of the facts surrounding and issue before forming an opinion on it.  In most cases becoming fully informed would take too much time.  Politics, like religion, become a core to our identities, and people feel that an attack on their political beliefs is an attack on themselves.  Its easy to become defensive when this happens.
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It's premature to expect anything.  Politicians regularly promise the world and even promise to tie a nice little bow around it too.  Nobody wants promises - they want results.\n\nAnd whether anything is REALLY going to change or not is still completely a matter of speculation.  We will all have to wait and see.\n\nBut, as the saying goes, "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results".  We may not get different results from the governement after this election, but at least we're not doing the same thing over and over.  And most of America clearly doesn't like the way various things are going.