Usually I can't stand politics, and a political themed article is about the last thing I'd ever be caught posting...but I found this article, and I have to admit it's kind of interesting. The author comes across sounding a little conspiracy theorist-ish, but he makes an interesting point. In this article, he's talking about a republican debate among candidates, and how their expressions tend to say more than they actually say out loud. The author spends a lot of time talking about quick smirks, and how those might be interpreted as contempt towards the opponent. With as bad of a rap as most politicians already have, it certainly is easy (and sort of fun) to buy into this and interpret that as just another sign that all politicians are self centered and think all their opponents are idiots. How reliable do you think these types of non-verbal expressions/communications are in telling the true personality of a politician, or what they are actually thinking?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/clark-freshman/gop-debate-body-language_b_953564.html
I do feel that some nonverbal expressions that politicians have can be used to interpret what their true self is like, but I do feel that this article is taking it a bit too far. I find it interesting that with the GOP debates getting so heated this year between the opponents- that this article was written solely about the GOP debates. I do not see how they can analyze every little movement that these people are making in the debates alone, and make blanket statements over what these people must be like in regular life. National televised debates I feel like cause people to probably not always act like their selves, meaning that in order to decide how the GOP candidates truly are, they must analyze the nonverbal communications of these people in their regular lives, not just when they are on the hot seat.
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