2nd Debate Scoreboard

[BmorePat87]

(06-28-2019, 11:08 AM)Dill Wrote: Diction: rich. Syntax: coherent through complex, flowing sentences. She does not shift topic in mid-sentence or speak in fragments. Low on middle school superlatives (the best, the greatest, the most, the biggest).

That matters now.

As an inspirational author she is trying to tap the better side of human nature after Trump's appeal to xenophobia and nativism. She is also an activist for women's rights, aids awareness, California liberal stuff.

She may sound vacuous to you because where others are working up specific policies and identifying which levers of government they need to work, she is still talking about "love" and changing people to change the world.  There may be a gender thing here too; lots of women may like what she says; men don't go for that "love" crap.

I'm a materialist. We need to focus on changing the world if we want to change people. But the fact the the Democratic field includes someone placing "love of humanity" front and center, in fluent English, speaks volumes for the forces opposing Trump.

I think calling the detailed policy proposals of the other candidates "superficial fixes" that don't address paying for healthcare is an incredibly silly statement and one made by someone completely out of their depth. 

In her flowery words and can do attitude, there's little substance in all of it that's relevant to what is needed. The fact that we have an qualified president who cannot speak well and is not empathetic doesn't mean we need an unqualified one who speaks well and is empathetic.