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"FacebookPinterestromney did build it.jpg\n\nThe candid video Mother Jones released yesterday, of Mitt Romney speaking at a private fundraiser in Boca Raton, is the most revealing look at the candidate so far: he's open and honest, comfortable in his surroundings, and more articulate than we've ever seen him. Which is why it's worth focusing on his words in a very micro way. The real problem with Romney's remarks is not that his statistics were incorrect (though they were) or that his tone was condescending (and it was); the problem was his choice of pronouns. Read this carefully.\n\nThere are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that &amp;gt; they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for &amp;gt; them, who believe that &amp;gt; they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to &amp;gt; them. And they will vote for this president no matter what.\n\nThis is, essentially, the biggest distinction between the Democratic and Republican parties today: In Romney's opinion, every vote cast is a self-interested one: those people who vote for Obama are only doing so because they're lazy and they want handouts. He cannot conceive of a scenario in which a self-sufficient rich person would vote for a tax increase, or worse, why he'd vote for a bigger welfare net that he won't use, despite the fact that there are many who openly do so. In his blanket categorization of Obama's base, he applies his own social darwinist logic\u2014the current Republican party's prevailing logic, it should be said\u2014to a Democratic belief system. That's why he finds it so easy to dismiss nearly half of America. In Romney's world, you don't vote for the benefit of other people\u2014you vote for yourself. But any liberal\u2014especially a wealthy liberal\u2014would tell you that that's not what it's about. In fact, a liberal would agree with much of Romney's characterizations, with one small edit\u2014the pronouns:\n\nThere are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that &amp;gt; other people are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for &amp;gt; other people, who believe that &amp;gt; other people are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to &amp;gt; other people. And they will vote for this president no matter what.\n\nAnd he's right. Romney will never see this for what it is, but that's the blood that runs through the veins of a true Democrat: it's not about you. It's not about you. It's not about you.\n\nRead more on Death Race 2012\n\nIt's the Pronouns, Stupid: The Revealing Linguistics of Romney's Gaffe\n\nHunger Reads: The Real Romney and the Complicated Math of Swing States\n\nMeditation Expert Davidji on How Presidential Candidates Can Keep Their Cool\n\nToday's Political Firestorm: Romney Finally Tells Us How He Really Feels"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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