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ProfessorGAC

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1. I Don't Disagree

Reply to SleeplessinSoCal (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2020, 05:19 PM

May 2020

We have better ideas, but still haven't become good at selling them, absent a highly charismatic messenger.
41, 43, PINO. That's not charisma. That's bravado or folksiness. But it sells.
The "talking policy" & "we go high" hasn't worked.
Time to appeal to emotional responses.
To borrow from "Men In Black". The person is smart, but people are stupid!

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Looking for a meme to respond to a rightwinger going after my Congressman on Twitter. [View all] SleeplessinSoCal May 2020 OP

I Don't Disagree ProfessorGAC May 2020 #1

Check George Lakoff's advice for language Democrats can use, Hortensis May 2020 #2

Back around 2004 Lakoff videos were featured at out Dem club meetings. SleeplessinSoCal May 2020 #3

I don't remember even most of his tips, and his "nurturing parent" Hortensis May 2020 #5

Good luck with that... Wounded Bear May 2020 #4

Okay. We just need one or two. Hortensis May 2020 #6

thanks for your input. truly appreciated SleeplessinSoCal May 2020 #7

:) Oh, yeah. We're originally from California and still Hortensis May 2020 #8

glad to be of service. SleeplessinSoCal May 2020 #9