Reply #9: Somewhere along the line...

[neoblues]

Somewhere along the line, the Republicans managed very cleverly to use their skills as demonizing and altering the meanings of words to make the word "union" seem like a bad, selfish thing that resulted in reduced production and higher prices. This resembles their successful campaign against the word "liberal".

We must find a means to counter this technique as well as find a way to re-educate people as to the good qualities of our words. A "word restoration" technique. Once we've managed to gain access to the mass media, then we can begin re-education of the population. People need to know the value and benefits obtained from words like "union" and even "taxes". The negative associations must also be refuted.

The Right has worked diligently, patiently and somewhat stealthily in their disinformation/word smear campaigns over many years. We can hardly take the same span of time... We need a construct relied upon heavily by the Right, Think Tanks/Research Groups/Strategy Organization/Brain Trust--whatever, we need some expert linquists working with some expert advertising people to develop effective approaches to dealing with these problems. Given the distributive and organizational support of groups like MoveOn.org, we could then begin a comprehensive implementation of such strategies.

Till then, we're going to be fighting somewhat ineffectively, in a piecemeal fashion, against a well prepared, organized enemy with completed research on the questions at hand. Have we not leaders pursuing every available avenue or are we as disorganized as it seems? We need a 'good' genius as a complement to the role Karl Rove plays for the Republicans (that of Evil Mastermind :evilfrown: ).