As I was reading the various op-eds today I was struck by the possibility of a synthesis of two ideas I've seen both here and in the mainstream press.
The first was an acknowledgment in Molly Ivin's latest
column acknowledging the kossite idea of George Soros buying Diebold:
I am indebted to a blogger on DailyKos.com for the brilliant notion that George Soros should buy Diebold Co. The country's leading manufacturer of electronic voting machines is currently headed by a Bush Pioneer, which is enough to give anyone the creeps.
Then later I stumbled onto a NYT op-ed on George Lakoff's concept of framing, another topic that had previously been raised here at dkos:
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As I was reading the various op-eds today I was struck by the possibility of a synthesis of two ideas I've seen both here and in the mainstream press.
The first was an acknowledgment in Molly Ivin's latest
column acknowledging the kossite idea of George Soros buying Diebold:
I am indebted to a blogger on DailyKos.com for the brilliant notion that George Soros should buy Diebold Co. The country's leading manufacturer of electronic voting machines is currently headed by a Bush Pioneer, which is enough to give anyone the creeps.
Then later I stumbled onto a NYT op-ed on George Lakoff's concept of framing, another topic that had previously been raised here at dkos:
As Dr. Lakoff sees it, Democrats need to start framing issues in terms of their own values, which, he insists, are no less popular with the American people than the Republicans' values. This project will, however, take more than spin and sloganeering. On many subjects, he argues, the Democrats suffer from what he calls "hypocognition" - more simply, a lack of ideas. Republicans have been working for the past 40 years, since the defeat of Barry Goldwater, in well-financed think tanks, on developing conservative ideas that voters will rally around. The Democrats, he says, need to start catching up.
So here's my point, the mega-rich Dems out there ought to be putting their money and their best people into liberal think-tanks and work on developing better ways to frame Democratic values.
Now I certainly don't believe this is the be all and end all of what we need to do to reclaim this country for the forces of reason. But I do believe that we must do a better job communicating our message and that must be a continuous process starting immediately.