Malcolm Gladwell: The Science Dems Need To Know To Beat Trump | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC

Best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell explains how voters are experiencing “choice overload” with a field this size, and how most people “tune out” after they’re provided with more than six options.

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[kirstituomi]

I loved Gladwell’s books! He’s Canadian, and so delightfully humble! So proud!

[flabbybum]

'Imagine you have an infinite line of twenty glasses...'
Yep, you're right Malcolm, that is hard to imagine.

[iankidston]

Great video - Gladwell is one of my all time favorite authors - more please!

[SurrealistHire]

I disagree. I've been for Bernie all along. Only Gabbard, Yang, Warren and Buttigeig have drawn my interest. That's five candidates to compare. No problem. Put Bernie in the White House with one of them as his VP and the others in his cabinet. It would be ten times better than anything I've seen so far in my 63 years.

[stuckin]

Better 23 glasses with different amounts of sugar against one from the sewer.

[notbrendon]

I love you Ari. Now shut up and let him talk

[jasonfaulkner]

6:55 There it is! MGladwell talks electoral reform; ranked ballots, single transferable, proportional allotments ... whatever. This is kryptonite to Establishment control. But there it is. Gladwell said it. He is correct too, it would make voting smarter. However, at this point, its starting to look like Greens and Progressives will own near future elections. I expect the RightWing will beg for electoral reform inside 20 years.

[tpog]

Ranking them is actually pretty easy: Bernie is the best, the rest doesn't matter.

[daveg]

Bernie, Tulsi, Elizabeth & maybe Yang! They are the ONLY ones who are not corrupted by big money & have the middle class interest in mind. We pay the majority of all taxes, we should be able to pick our candidate.

[panzertracks]

I agree. after the first 12 pack of beer I can't tell if its a bud, miller, land shark, or corona.

[TheCrocfiles]

Gladwell's theory sound right. I went through the Dem list and there are only 5-6 that I like right now. So, I feel confident that I can rank my favorites.

[stellashepherd]

Beto or Pete would probably win the 5k. But as much as I like them I’m not choosing my candidate based on their ability to run.

[SeanCStark]

You can have "This one", (Red) or "That one", (Blue) is not enough choice... for 320 million people.

[Fatboy]

4:36 ~"Nobody can rank these people in order of their preference." WTF is he talking about?
Nobody is asked to rank ALL 23 in order of preference. You have to pick oly one. If that one drops out you pick a new one. Nobody cares about places 5 to 23. This analogy is so stupid it hurts. It also asumes there is only one metric to evaluate the candidates.
The idear of ranked voting is very good thou.

[BrianAnderson]

Apparently people just won't let Malcolm Gladwell leave spaghetti sauce behind him.

[joealp]

I simplify it to a choice between progressive, moderate or Andrew Yang.

[aureliomanalo]

We wanted Bernie last time and we want him this time. Case closed.

[dorothydean]

Ranked choice makes sense. However the tongue-in-cheek 5.K run is weighted not toward knowledge an d experience but to temporarily abled people. The physical over brain power and compassion.

[Swnsasy]

I love Malcolm! Great author... But seriously most people are only looking at the top 5 to be honest.. I like Tulsi but she's at the bottom... I'm only looking at Bernie, Yang, Tulsi and Warren.. These are the ones that actually hold the same values as I do.. Biden is worse than Di Blasio to me... I started looking up his record asks in my opinion he doesn't seem like a Democrat.. There is a reason he's lost 2 runs already, that should start to make you wonder.. We will not move forward with him in office.. They need to focus on The Senate because McConnell is disgusting and a horrible person, he's worse than Trump to me!! He cares about his donors and putting money in his pocket and said he would not do A ANYTHING for the American people because HE doesn't want too!! How is that good for this country?

[inblackamericaradio]

now I know what Logic will look like when he gets older 🤣🤣🤣🤣