Washington reopens, but Americans still feel shut out
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Lengthy federal government shutdown reveals deeper problem of public disengagement as political messaging failures erode belief in democratic institutions and leadership.
Lee Hartley Carter is president of Maslansky + Partners, a language strategist, researcher and author of "Persuasion: Convincing Others When Facts Don't Seem to Matter" (TarcherPerigee, September 3, 2019). Follow her on X on @lh_carter.
That’s what our research at our firm maslansky+partners, shows over and over again: when people hear noise instead of meaning, they disengage. When everything sounds like spin, nothing sounds like truth. And when they stop listening, you can’t persuade them anymore. That’s the real cost of a shutdown — not just the dollars lost, but the trust burned.
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