URGENT NEED TO REFRAME 2016 ELECTION

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5. In politics if one isn't on the offensive... one is losing ground

In politics if one isn't on the offensive... one is losing ground and framing issues is a vital part of being on the offensive. Once a person absorbs a frame, it determines how they see the world. That's why we are immune to FOX or Brietbart reporting... but right wingers eat it up.

And yet the lack of response to this thread suggests that grassroots liberal Dems are not willing to push back against blatantly false frames pushed even by the MSM such as the BBC and NPR... both to whom I've had to write to complain about their reporting.

And generally, I have to say I think there was more outrage in liberal circles about the illegitimate 2000 Bush election than with the more egregious installation of Trump as president even after being REJECTED by nearly 3 million voters... 6x that of Bush. Most of the outrage is about Trump personally than how he was installed, and this suggests to me that even liberal Dems really are clueless about something as basic what constitutes morally legitimate government. Our nation wasn't founded on letting minorities rule... something our federal system allows. That was simply the cynical politics of 1787... where the EC was created to magnify the votes of whites in slave states so they'd ratify the proposed Constitution.

The nation was founded on a deeper moral principle that the moral legitimacy of government was derived from the CONSENT of the governed. It's rather damning that so many liberal Dems who wear democracy on their sleeves don't even want to get back to basics and discuss just what morally legitimate government is. The US seems to be unique among advanced industrial democracies in not wanting to move to electoral and political systems that better measure and implement the will of the People.

Which brings me back to how the Trump "election" is being framed. If liberal Dems can't push back against the false framing of Trump being morally legitimate because he was "elected" for x, y, or z reasons... NO ONE WILL.