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I completely agree with this worry. One of my biggest concerns is that people aren't rational and they conflate joking BS statements from a liar who'll say anything for 'authenticity', and careful (slightly wooden) performances seem cagey.
People are idiots.
Trump.
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I completely agree with this worry. One of my biggest concerns is that people aren't rational and they conflate joking BS statements from a liar who'll say anything for 'authenticity', and careful (slightly wooden) performances seem cagey.
People are idiots.
Trump.
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Although Starmer is supposed to be the charismatic, good looking, electable leader Labour's been looking for since 2007. I do think he'll get better with time, though. Even Corbyn did.
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This is one of the real failures of progressive politics. Progressivism is unintentionally racist and classist so yeah, a populist shaped vacuum sucks up all of the votes and as can be see so clearly you can't win anything with only the metropolitan vote.
EDIT. Not really the right post to reply to.
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My concern (or one of them at least) with Starmer is that he comes across as very wooden. I don't doubt that he's intelligent, analytical, well-prepared, etc but he just comes across as so dull. Watching his "jokes" in the budget response speech was painful.
I guess it's possible that, up against Johnson, he'll attract those that are looking for something a bit deeper than a slightly humorous but meaningless soundbite but I'm not sure there's enough of them.
I'm not sure what the solution is, maybe an acting coach or something (although I imagine if that was revealed he'd get all sorts of stick for it).