Did I just hear Norman Goldman correctly?

[Duckfan]

....(paraphrasing) that voters are going to be concerned about Bernies "socialism" belief if he gets the nomination?

Is that what he said? Are you kidding? I think that's what my ears heard.

Did anyone else get it?

[guillaumeb]

1. Goldman has talked before about "framing the narrative".

Many people in the US apparently have little idea about what socialism is. It sounds like Communism, or pacifism, or idealism, or all those other words that end in "ism".

Make a word sound scary and people will think it represents something scary.

[safeinOhio]

2. For the real scary word is

Neoliberal.

[draa]

3. +10000

[guillaumeb]

4. I nearly fainted just reading it.

I am not too fond of "triangulating".

[TIME TO PANIC]

5. Compromise and bipartisan make me uneasy these days. n/t

[Enthusiast]

10. Plus a bazillion!

[global1]

6. Then The Challenge Is To Make It Sound Good Before They...

can make it sound scary. Beat them to the punch and diffuse any of there negative antics. Then we could make them look desperate trying to scare. Use their own tactics to beat them at there game.

[guillaumeb]

7. Agreed.

But the US corporate media is complicit in the mis-education.

[global1]

8. Use 'Social' Media To Turn The Term 'Socialism'...

into something good. Most everybody is familiar with and uses 'social' media. It is not scary to them and they embrace it. They could make the leap to 'democratic socialism' really easy.

Now how do we begin associating these two terms 'democratic social media' with 'democratic socialism' and get the association to feel good?

[eridani]

9. I don't think he realizes that the electorate has changed significantly.

For one thing, the Millennials are now the largest voting block, and they don't have that much awareness about the Cold War. For another thing, the Repukes have been calling Dem candidates "socialist" (including both Clintons and Obama) for so long that it's losing its effectiveness as a snarl word.