1 When I think how much destruction and self-destruction is abetted simply by the GOP's disciplined repetition of false and facile slogans
2 (eg gov isn't the solution it's the problem; privatizing public services improves them; taxes are burdens rather than enablers of freedom)
3 I can't help but wonder how much the Dem left might accomplish if we endlessly repeated our own correct and clarifying messages
4 (eg, those who say government is bad never deliver good government; there is strength in diversity; freedom is made of public investments)
5 I fear Dems don't muster comparable discipline in an eagerness to perform cleverness hunting novelty rather than inculcating good sense,
6 and by performing unflappability (not surprised!) rather than justified outrage at the waste, corruption, crimes, and lies of the right.
7 Every right-wing slogan is a nail inviting the hammer of a comparably pithy dem-left rejoinder that everybody knows to deliver as a blow.
8 The point isn't always to convince entrenched foes but to generate immediate associations sustaining foundational progressive commonsense.
9 This is not the kind of rhetorical work that will garner you praise for your wit or originality. Actually, it's dull and annoying.
10 A world that works can only be built out of such rhetorical work. Don't be afraid or ashamed to repeat basic progressive truths.
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