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Originally Posted by 19Yzerman19
In other words, our political representatives should campaign to the lowest common denominator; essentially, treat the electorate as if they're fourteen years old.
This is exactly the problem with the present political model that's furthered by sensationalist shock-jock hacks like Levant: you must not confuse or frighten the plurality of potential voters who are too dumb or too lazy to figure out what you actually stand for or what you're actually saying. Instead, they'll listen to the loudest voice willing to put the issue in the simplest terms possible, accuracy being of no issue.
If it were me I'd rephrase the question to Ezra as "why do you think your audience members are all complete idiots and can't figure out when an oft-used phrase is being used rhetorically?"
Really the way for Nenshi to respond to the issue would've been in a longer-than-140-characters editorial that could be referred to any time any question came up. "The mayor addressed that in his piece in the Herald, I'll refer you to those comments."
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Quickest way for his popularity to drop through the floor.
Nenshi clearly didn't understand his audience when he made that Twitter remark.
Like I said, I'm well educated, I would never use the beat your wife question as part of my debating queue. It's about as offensive as using the term rule of thumb.