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43. IIRC, flipping "entitlement" to a pejorative term was a Frank Luntz joint.

Reply to Dark n Stormy Knight (Reply #40)

Sat Oct 9, 2021, 11:05 AM

Oct 2021

It polled well in his right-wing focus groups. Very successful bit of Orwellian revisionist linguistics, unfortunately.

I love that Sen. Sanders said this. He’s got it exactly right. Damn right we’re entitled, entitled to what America is supposed to represent.

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