The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - September 06, 2024


Emotions vs Reason - The Trump vs Harris Decision on The Jesse Watters Show (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_708)

Topics
cult vs republic emotions vs reason
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Gad Saad
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Sam Harris Trump Manson Gadzad Reagan Jesse Obama
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5 minutes

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Word count

956

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88

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2

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Jesse Jackson delivers a blistering attack on the media and Democratic presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, and how she s running on a platform of joy and change, while the rest of the country is focused on the issues that matter most to them.

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00:00:00.000 Kamala Harris losing all the issues, so she's campaigning on joy and change while the media 0.58
00:00:06.100 tells you Trump isn't a capitalist or a conservative, and if you vote for him, you're in a cult.
00:00:11.380 He doesn't talk like a conservative. He's abandoned conservatives on the issues that
00:00:16.820 matter to them the most. So at this point, are you for a personality cult? Do you want
00:00:22.580 to be in a personality cult, or do you want the republic to endure? That's what it comes
00:00:26.700 down to as far as the republic as we have known it, with Madisonian democracy and checks and
00:00:32.660 balances. I'll just say it. Are they being programmed by certain cable news networks that twist the
00:00:42.120 truth, or by certain websites that twist the truth? Is that their reality? Being in a cult
00:00:48.880 means you unquestionably follow the leader to your own death and never speak ill of them.
00:00:53.880 Is that how the Republican Party treats Trump? The Republican Party sabotaged him legislatively.
00:01:02.400 They primaried him last year. Dozens of officials resigned or switched parties because of Trump,
00:01:08.280 and a lot of Republicans hold their nose and vote for him. This has to be the worst cult ever.
00:01:14.340 Millions of Republicans vote for Trump not for his personality, but for his policy. We're not voting
00:01:21.420 for Trump because we want him to be our valentine. You can't take the chance. You have no choice.
00:01:28.060 You've got to vote for me. You've got to vote for me. Even if you don't like me, you know?
00:01:37.400 No, but even if you don't like me, you can sit there and say, I can't stand that guy, but there's
00:01:46.620 no way I'm going to vote for her. The Democrats marched behind Harris with the senseless passion
00:01:52.200 of the Manson girls. We love Harris. We hate Trump, and we'll just do whatever you tell us to do.
00:01:57.640 So this election is a battle between reason and emotion. Which one will win? Author of The
00:02:05.860 Parasitic Mind and Visiting Professor and Global Ambassador at Northwood University, Dr. Gadzad.
00:02:13.140 So which is going to win, emotion or reason, Professor?
00:02:16.780 Oh, boy, you know, in my lectures on psychology of advertising, I talk about advertisers using
00:02:23.060 either the central root of processing, which is substantive arguments. Here is why you should
00:02:29.420 invest in my reverse mortgage versus affective processing, emotional-based processing, a gorgeous
00:02:37.260 girl on a horse when you're trying to sell perfume. Now, you'd like to think that for the most important
00:02:42.280 job in the world, people would be invoking their cognitive system. But of course, the Kamala campaign
00:02:49.680 knows that she's not doing well on policy, so she's going to try to hijack your emotional system, 1.00
00:02:55.800 vibes, fun, excitement, and so on. So this is going to be a campaign about you're at the beach,
00:03:03.560 you got some cocktails, the music's playing, everybody's having a good time, but no one's
00:03:09.820 thinking. You just want to be at the beach with a drink. You know, you woke up the next morning and
00:03:14.740 you got a hangover and you have no money left. How do the American people process that? Because
00:03:20.140 there is a fight between the emotion and the reason. Exactly. Look, what disheartens me is that
00:03:28.380 I see my own colleagues who are supposed to be trained thinkers succumbing to that emotional
00:03:35.400 hijacking, right? So in a sense, I'm feeling quite pessimistic because if I can't inoculate my own 0.86
00:03:41.940 colleagues against that type of affective-based processing, then what's the rest of the folks
00:03:47.960 to do? So I keep speaking out. Please think carefully. Please look at the issues. Don't look
00:03:53.360 at positive vibes. But it's a tough sell, Jesse. It's a tough one. But why do you think people don't
00:03:59.560 think? Millions of Americans just, they walk around, they look at the phone, they don't even have
00:04:06.780 the news on the phone. They just go around and life just happens to them. They're not looking at
00:04:12.220 the policy on the border or their taxes. They might not even vote for the person that they know
00:04:18.980 anything about. Why would that be? So people are cognitive misers, which is a fancy way of saying
00:04:26.300 intellectually lazy. Thinking is hard. Thinking is effortful. So if I can invoke an autonomic response,
00:04:33.500 i.e. my emotions, to cut through the informational overload and come to a decision, then I will use
00:04:40.940 that. So, you know, Obama is tall, lanky, and he's got a mellifluous voice. I'm sold. It's too hard to
00:04:47.720 think about his policies. I'll just buy into his radiant smile, and I'll get to the finish line.
00:04:53.620 Mellifluous. I mean, that is a word I can't even pronounce. When someone, though, thinks with
00:05:00.360 reason, you see cause and effect. There's consequences. There's logic involved. You know,
00:05:05.660 if I save my money today, I'll have more later. Or if I work out every day of the week for six weeks
00:05:12.540 straight, I'll lose weight. Shouldn't that be the same way people approach politics? If I vote for
00:05:18.200 this guy, my life will be better later. If you were a rational voter, then that's what you would do.
00:05:26.760 But as I said, people don't like this. I mean, I teach, I've been teaching courses on psychology
00:05:32.180 of decision-making for 30-plus years. And yes, the textbook says that that's how you should engage
00:05:38.260 a decision normatively. But again, emotions are easy to deploy. They're fast and frugal.
00:05:44.060 Go with joy and positive vibes.
00:05:45.940 Okay. Well, maybe Trump can just add joy to his mix and we can have logic and joy. That's a winning
00:05:52.980 ticket. Like Reagan. Thanks. All right. Gad Saad, thank you so much for coming back to Primetime.
00:05:58.360 Thank you.