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Emotion has no “IQ”

Is this the secret to understanding current political culture? Is it the overriding reason why the Constitution must be followed as it is written? During the middle to late 1960’s, management gurus started to discuss the effects of emotions in the workplace. “EQ”, as opposed to “IQ”, is now accepted as a reference to emotional response and considered to be an employee satisfaction measurement tool. Emotions in the workplace (most often referred to as complaining) are often the result of frustration caused by an inability of an individual to get an idea or thought, [they are passionate about], across to management.

At the time, along about 1968, the Liberal wing of the Democrat Party seized upon this notion, realizing that relieving or, “playing to”, someone’s pain and suffering could bring great rewards in the way of “votes”. Strategists got together and were so enamored with the idea that they went one step farther; they were not only going to pander to pain and suffering, and see to it that it continued, but they would also “create” even more pain and suffering! Ergo, inner-city poverty, high health care costs via trial attorneys, promoting the "single mom" and the "poor teacher" syndromes, etc., etc., etc. Yes, emotion has no “I.Q. and that is just fine with Democrat elitists and pandering Blue-blood Republicans who feel the only way they can stay in office is not “reaching across the aisle”, but "running across the aisle!