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opihimoimoi

(52,426 posts)
Sat Jan 7, 2012, 02:10 PM Jan 2012

DEMs have More GROUP THINKERS than them GOPers...Dems think for the GROUP Best Solutions

GOPers Think Shallow...mostly "Me and I " Stuffs...Band aid answers , canardly discuss reality

and sanity in the same breath....thus their proposals look so Lame when scrutinized closely...

Their record of guessing wrong is extensive over a number of critical matters.....resulting in a

Zero Gain T-Bagger led Congress....Boners loss....looked like shit...turned orange early on...

Dems think and act with Kindness

GOPers are into GRUMPINESS and MEANESS

What are we? We gonna take this shit?

Its time to Cleanse the Nation of stupid Politics...

We need More of Sanity, Reality, & Clarity, with REASON tossed in.....

VOTE OUT the Illness that is plaguing the USA.....vote out Grumpy

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DEMs have More GROUP THINKERS than them GOPers...Dems think for the GROUP Best Solutions (Original Post) opihimoimoi Jan 2012 OP
Actually, lefties are individualists who value consensus... ClassWarrior Jan 2012 #1
LOL....err...I thought I just said that??? I guess not....all I noes is those GOPers consistently opihimoimoi Jan 2012 #2
Hells yeah to the Luau!! Almost six years ago... ClassWarrior Jan 2012 #4
Someday you come Hawaii...I show Friggen Hugh Luau....LOL..... opihimoimoi Jan 2012 #5
I'll take you up on that, my friend. ClassWarrior Jan 2012 #6
Make it soon...got only a few miles left in this ole body of mine..LOL...Come, we go Fish...big kine opihimoimoi Jan 2012 #9
Seems to me both uses of the word "group" are superfluous... n/t gkhouston Jan 2012 #3
Solving for a GROUP is diff from solving INDIVIDUAL... its another Level...The GOPers fail at this opihimoimoi Jan 2012 #7
I agree, but that's not what I was implying. Let me be more explicit. gkhouston Jan 2012 #11
Agreed...the Dems rock when it comes to Administering Big Gov't...Way Better than GOPer Drudes opihimoimoi Jan 2012 #14
GOPers are GROUPERS? pinboy3niner Jan 2012 #8
Hey there, Aloha, Come, We go eat.....Fish and Poi opihimoimoi Jan 2012 #10
I think you don't know that the term "groupthink" means... Odin2005 Jan 2012 #12
Perhaps? What, if I could ask, does "Groupthink" mean? I may have a diff def..... opihimoimoi Jan 2012 #13
Sayeth Wiki: Odin2005 Jan 2012 #16
that is close to the ZERO THEORY which had its day some years ago...if all agree then no opihimoimoi Jan 2012 #17
There are no intellectual RW'ers. FarLeftFist Jan 2012 #15
At this point... I have to agree... opihimoimoi Jan 2012 #18

ClassWarrior

(26,316 posts)
1. Actually, lefties are individualists who value consensus...
Sat Jan 7, 2012, 02:14 PM
Jan 2012

...and righties are group thinkers who value selfishness.

NGU.

opihimoimoi

(52,426 posts)
2. LOL....err...I thought I just said that??? I guess not....all I noes is those GOPers consistently
Sat Jan 7, 2012, 02:30 PM
Jan 2012

display shallow thinking....canardly solve anything....

mostly they whine, ankle bite, and complain....thats not solving.....thats fucked up....

Come, we go Luau....eat, drink, laugh, smile, surf

ClassWarrior

(26,316 posts)
4. Hells yeah to the Luau!! Almost six years ago...
Sat Jan 7, 2012, 02:39 PM
Jan 2012

...I spent some time on Maui. I love your state, opi.

And you're correct about the RW. I was just playing semantics games with you.

NGU.

opihimoimoi

(52,426 posts)
7. Solving for a GROUP is diff from solving INDIVIDUAL... its another Level...The GOPers fail at this
Sat Jan 7, 2012, 02:47 PM
Jan 2012

Look at their list of solutions....its madness....mostly band aid shit...and a lot of GUESSING...

gkhouston

(21,642 posts)
11. I agree, but that's not what I was implying. Let me be more explicit.
Sat Jan 7, 2012, 03:06 PM
Jan 2012

The OP title, sans the word "group", reads: "DEMs have More THINKERS than them GOPers...Dems think for the Best Solutions".

I meant that Dems have the best solutions, period.

Odin2005

(53,521 posts)
16. Sayeth Wiki:
Sat Jan 7, 2012, 04:07 PM
Jan 2012
Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within groups of people. It is the mode of thinking that happens when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives. Group members try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative ideas or viewpoints. Antecedent factors such as group cohesiveness, structural faults, and situational context play into the likelihood of whether or not groupthink will impact the decision-making process.

The primary socially negative cost of groupthink is the loss of individual creativity, uniqueness, and independent thinking. As a social science model, groupthink has an enormous reach and influences literature in the fields of communications, political science, social psychology, management, organizational theory, and information technology.[1]

The majority of the initial research on groupthink was performed by Irving Janis, a research psychologist from Yale University. His original definition of the term was, “A mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive ingroup, when the members' strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise alternative courses of action” (Janis, 1972).[2] Since Janis’s work, other studies have attempted to reformulate his groupthink model. 'T Hart (1998) [3] developed a concept of groupthink as “collective optimism and collective avoidance,” while McCauley (1989) [4] pointed to the impact of conformity and compliance pressures on groupthink decisions.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink

opihimoimoi

(52,426 posts)
17. that is close to the ZERO THEORY which had its day some years ago...if all agree then no
Sun Jan 8, 2012, 12:12 AM
Jan 2012

guilt if failure occurs....board level....Jqapan went for this big time....result...stagnation in progressive thought...

The group decision I was trying to describe is when one or more peeps concieve whats best for the situation(group) ...and sharing the thought....allows freedom in free thought

opihimoimoi

(52,426 posts)
18. At this point... I have to agree...
Sun Jan 8, 2012, 12:13 AM
Jan 2012


Come, we go Surfing the Realm of Hope...thats all we have today in this Planet of madness...until..

The Year of Reason 2012...comes to bear.....
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