Political Catch Phrases Constrict Thought?

[eniwetok]

11. heaven forbid

Leaving aside your claim is bull... that there is no ONE Dem position on raising the national MW... it ranges from Obama's $10.10 to free lunchers who want $22... and that I've supported a MW higher than Obama as well as state/city efforts to go higher, are you suggesting that Dems go though life guided by vague, feel good, phrases without bothering to flesh out what they mean? For example, just what DOES it mean to "pay one's fair share" in taxes? Do you think you're going to just convince an independent or right winger using a cute phrase without some convincing moral basis for whatever tax rate you come up with? After all, it has to compete with the narrative the right wing has crafted over the past century.

Or perhaps you're referring to liberal Dems utterly deluding themselves that they support "democracy" when they actually support an a mathematically verifiable antidemocratic system and refuse to confront their own cognitive dissonance?

Sorry, that's just Orwellian. If I see such intellectually mushiness and hypocrisy... I have to say something... especially if I think Dems are making strategic blunders in refusing to reform an antidemocratic system that works against their own agenda... or refusing to develop a concerted strategy to roll back corporate power.