Reply #29: Skip the Slogans, and Give the Explanation of the Program

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I think the Democratic Party--the real one, not this current "D"LC, Inc. impostor--should just get back to its roots, (and a relationship with the actual American population), by treating the economy, corporate regulations, poverty, prices and wages, corporate taxes, etc., etc., as a thing controlled by the Government of a society, for the benefit of its citizens--not as a payoff for individual corporate contributors, come what may. If people are concerned about getting Americans to pay attention to what goes on in Government, then do something that relates to them, and helps something about their actual lives. People who are price-gouged, on a fixed-income or minimum wage, who can't pay off their credit card bills, medical bills, student loans, etc., increasingly in debt, with no increased income, do not want to hear fucking SLOGANS that never relate to them.

I hate "framing" and slogans, jargon, "spin," and all the rest, and I think it has all contributed to the decline of critical thinking, and civic interest. If I thought all legislators were commercial sales-pitch sluts, I would be repulsed from it, too. Further, "framing" does not even give the best reasons or logic for supporting a position or program. It actually kills the deeper constructive thinking that leads you to an articulation or defense of your opinion, and replaces it with something that cuts right to the attempted mind-control, cutting off all thought that led to it, cutting off all debate, stupid about what the arguments are for a thing. I always think of it as if I were trying to make a case to an earlier, more literary, less visual, generation, and I actually have to explain things.

A couple of people on this thread have already referred to the New Deal, which was, and remains, the greatest complete approach of programs, departments,and legislation, dealing with this crisis, and I also agree that we should just do that again. There isn't even any need to pretend to be doing anything new. With the increasing poverty, now reaching levels of the middle class who were all right before the current Bush/Cheney Administration, there are more people than ever who understand this problem, more millions waiting for a solution--and so nothing even needs to be "explained"; they know very well what their suffering is! All you need to do is explain what you will do, so that you show that YOU understand it--there is no question anymore that the lowly "sheeple" have understood this crisis for years now, they do not need convincing!

Rather than taking the "consultant" route, pretending to be smarter than all the "sheeple" you now presume to lead around by the nose--while ignorantly telling them nothing about your program and how it will solve things--we should take the approach of Franklin Roosevelt, whose very first Fireside Chat to the American people, on March 12, 1933 just after taking office (March, back then), explaining the new laws protecting people's savings in banks, so they would no longer be lost if the bank failed, but now Federally insured, "I want to tell you what has been done in the last few days, why it was done, and what the next steps are going to be." Those were the first words Roosevelt ever told the Nation on radio, as President. They knew what they were doing, had many plans and even more willingness to try and fail, and try again, and the economy started improving immediately, and continued until Republicans started killing key elements of the New Deal, such as the National Recovery Administration. All you have to do is skip the uninformative slogans, and tell what you are going to do, to prove you understand it and are really going to do it, like the Roosevelt and Johnson Administrations did, and precious few else ever have.