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Cyrano

(15,075 posts)
Sat Nov 28, 2020, 04:30 PM Nov 2020

Time to fight back against Republicans framing all the issues [View all]

They want to call us the Democrat Party? Lets call them Extremists.

They want to call us socialists? Let's repeat they want to destroy Social Security and Medicare.

They want to call us tax and spenders? Let's call them servants of Wall Street.

They want to call us elites? Let's call them book burners.

Well, you get the idea. They've been defining us for years. Their pundits, their elected members, their propaganda mills never stop using the same words over and over again until they become "reality" in the minds of many.

Well, it's payback time. It's a given that Dems don't march in "goose-step" like Republicans, but we've got to work together on framing them the way in which they've spent decades labeling us. It's a really shitty game. But it works only if we all do it every time we speak of them..

I really don't have any idea how you get a project like this rolling. But evidently, Republicans do. And either we get into this game, or we'll go on getting fucked forever. Until we start fightying back, we will be the ones walking around with whatever labels they want to hang on us.









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Let's remind voters there's ONE party in the developed world that meets ALL 14 criteria for fascism sandensea Nov 2020 #1
In Light Of Your POst Me. Nov 2020 #2
Sure! Anything that implies cruelty, they're for it - like Pavlov's pigeon is for little red buttons sandensea Nov 2020 #3
Actually they can't do that... Wounded Bear Nov 2020 #4
Well, THey Have Lawmakers From Certain States Who Are Hand In Glove With This Me. Nov 2020 #5
Totally agree MacKasey Nov 2020 #13
Thanks. Would that it weren't so. sandensea Nov 2020 #14
pro birth---not prolife Always Randy Nov 2020 #6
anti-life HUAJIAO Nov 2020 #15
Your anti-life statement is the perfect reply to their pro-life bullshit. Cyrano Nov 2020 #19
Spot on truth. Welcome to DU! JudyM Nov 2020 #20
Mobilize MONEY to invest in media STRUCTURE and outreach. It's isn't any one magical set of words. coti Nov 2020 #7
I agree about calling them extremists. That's what they've become. Hortensis Nov 2020 #8
It would help BGBD Nov 2020 #9
Yes, and we need a big loudspeaker too, to battle the hate radio and TV that spews GOP crap. n/t Pobeka Nov 2020 #10
I have a couple ideas to get this project rolling. 1. Don't repeat right wing talking points. 2.... Nimble_Idea Nov 2020 #11
They used "Right to Work" to take away safeinOhio Nov 2020 #12
Absolutely! pandr32 Nov 2020 #16
The reason the repug framing has worked is because of a complicit MSM Ferrets are Cool Nov 2020 #17
George Lakoff has been trying to tell Democrats this for decades mtnsnake Nov 2020 #18
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