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posted by Dahvi at 12:09 AM
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I enjoyed the paper. I feel that the Progressives need a tagline. The Conservative's tagline is “The Liberal Elite…"
I think then when discussing Conservative people and issues the progressives should say something like "The trouble with the conservative manipulators is ......"
As in "The trouble with the conservative manipulators like Rush Limbaugh is that when he abuses drugs he explains why his drug problem isn't a real problem"
I like that a lot. Manipulation is a powerful frame.
The Rove coalitian is basically made up of 3 groups:
Free Lunch Billionaires ("don't tax me, I'm rich"), Evangelical Extremists ("belive in God the way we tell you or go to hell and die!"), and then there's the working class that I see being manipulated by the powerful influence of the former 2.
I don't like using the word "conservative" because I think it empowers the manipulators, but maybe right-wing manipulators, or radical evangelical manipulators, or free lunch billionaire manipulators...
thanks for that one
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