newt used a word list, we can too.
We have been studying about framing but that is only one angle of the war of words. We need to invent and reinvent words to associate feelings, ideas, passions. Two or so words that roll off the tongue and tell whole stories, but only if they can enter into common usage. I have collected 10 loaded, words or combinations which can serve our cause well if used properly
words like
Fraud-O-Matic when discussing voting speaks volumes, and is a shorthand for the fears even republicans have. I've gotten nonpartisan chuckles out of this one. As distasteful as it is we must get better at pushing these memes out into the public consciousness, they are rhetorical
tools too.
i've made a short list...
diebold-mandate
Always leaves the question open
book-cooker
used to describe those who engage in fudging any type of numbers
"there is no statistical trick too low for these book-cookers"
third-world
"third world education system"
bought-off
bought-off corporate whore media
cash-n-cary
credit due Sen. Byrd
smash-n-grab
updated version
Coat-hanger Coalition
how vicious do you want to be?
fox-fact
lifted from you-know-where, used contextually to connote a demonstrable untruth
"WMD found? what is that another fox-fact?"
deprogram
used to describe the revelation of a basic fact to a republican
or the weaning someone off of corporate media