The Delicate Art of Political Persuasion

The Gist

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🗓️ 15 June 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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A big problem with political arguments, says Robb Willer, is that everyone sees himself or herself as the hero in a zombie movie. "American liberals see themselves as Brad Pitt warding off a zombie horde," says Willer. "But the problem is conservatives see themselves the same way," and no one is able to make arguments that appeal to the other side. Willer teaches sociology at Stanford and writes about the delicate art of political persuasion for places such as the New York Times. In the Spiel, please Mr. President, don't throw the special prosecutor into the briar patch. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.4	Thursday June 15th, 2017 from Slate, it's the GIST I'm Mike Pasca.
0:13.4	This is one of those times when no one is saying a thing that needs to be said or I'm a
0:19.9	horrible monster.
0:20.9	What about both Mike or what if the thing that needs to be said is that you're a monster?
0:27.0	Okay, here's what needs to be said.
0:29.3	Every amble, this is honest, my heart goes out to everyone who was shot and critically
0:34.6	injured in that Republican baseball softball practice shooting.
0:38.7	It's horrendous.
0:40.5	Steve Scalise, the congressional staffer, the former staffer who's now a lobbyist who
0:44.5	pitches batting practice to the Republican baseball team.
0:47.6	They are people.
0:48.6	They are public servants.
0:50.4	It's horrible when anyone has this happened to them.
0:52.8	If you live in a democracy and they start gunning down our leaders, that's truly terrible.
0:57.9	No one deserves what happened to them.
1:00.4	Just seeing representatives in their three quarter length sleeve baseball uniform doing
1:04.7	press availability afterwards because as my slave colleague Jim Newell said, they seem
1:09.2	not to know what else to do.
1:10.7	That is very human.
1:11.7	That affected me.
1:12.7	But when I heard Speaker of the House Paul Ryan say this, we are united.
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