Populist Reform of the Democratic Party

Cosmic Kitten

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1. Ignored down ballot races on purpose?

Tue Feb 24, 2015, 04:37 PM

Feb 2015

Again, true enough.

I find the point about Lakoff interesting
and illuminating regarding the party policies

The problem here,
is that the Democrats tried this already,
back when there was a massive fad
for semantics or semiotics or whatever
dude George Lakoff, who used to be interesting
when he was a scholar, was pushing.

It's not that Lakoff was a fad.
It's that the DNC and 3rd-Way VALUES
are not authentic. Used car salesmen!

Messaging, semantics semiotics are only
relevant when they communicate what you
really mean and intend as your values.

The DNC has been spewing EMPTY rhetoric
and it's caught up to the party through election losses.

Now, the "new strategy" is to spew NEW EMPTY talking points!
Yeah that's the ticket! New lies to convince the peasants
to keep us in power/employment

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DNC Report Says Blankety-Blank Democrats Need a “National Narrative Project.” No, They Don’t. [View all] KoKo Feb 2015 OP

Ignored down ballot races on purpose? Cosmic Kitten Feb 2015 #1

You nailed it. It is policy problem. Marketing con on bad policy = fail on point Feb 2015 #2

+1 RiverLover Feb 2015 #6

Actually, different for different audiences Still Sensible Feb 2015 #3

Great observation! Cosmic Kitten Feb 2015 #4

If they have no bench left, aspirant Feb 2015 #5

Is there not a word about policy in this whole report? Maybe I'm just a simple guy, but ... Scuba Feb 2015 #7

It seemed to me, that it was just "Think Tank Stuff" going beyond Lakoff's early KoKo Feb 2015 #8