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Republican electoral technology “atrociously bad”
LINKA top digital consultant to Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign had harsh words for Republican technologists on Saturday, saying that many of them are “impostors” and that the GOP has until recently been an “atrociously bad” place for tech-savvy people wanting to get involved in politics.
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And yet, Barkett, 34, said that too many people in Republican politics, and political culture in general, still are too ignorant of basic technology.
“There’s a whole bunch of people in politics who say a lot of words, all the buzzwords that we talked about, and they say, ‘I want more analytics.’ None of them have any idea what any of those things mean,” he said, seated on a stage during a panel discussion alongside digital operatives working for the presidential campaigns of Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
Barkett urged people in politics doing tech-related work to “get over the impostor syndrome and learn what the ef you are talking about.”
“Be honest with yourself — you’re probably a political person, and you probably don’t know what the ef you’re taking about.
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And yet, Barkett, 34, said that too many people in Republican politics, and political culture in general, still are too ignorant of basic technology.
“There’s a whole bunch of people in politics who say a lot of words, all the buzzwords that we talked about, and they say, ‘I want more analytics.’ None of them have any idea what any of those things mean,” he said, seated on a stage during a panel discussion alongside digital operatives working for the presidential campaigns of Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
Barkett urged people in politics doing tech-related work to “get over the impostor syndrome and learn what the ef you are talking about.”
“Be honest with yourself — you’re probably a political person, and you probably don’t know what the ef you’re taking about.
It stands to reason that a political philosophy that wants to take us back to the "good old days" of the 1800s would be clueless about modern technology. What really baffles me is how a person who is intelligent enough to really understand computer technology could also be stupid enough to be a Republican.
