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pat_k

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14. Thanks! I hope he gets more and more exposure and adherents.
Mon Feb 20, 2017, 04:08 PM
Feb 2017

If more of our progressive leaders internalized his analysis and adopted his prescription for shifting the "conversation," we could go a VERY long way to turning all this around.

I would like to see all of us do a better job of promoting real, progressive, values in our own language, instead of opposing using "their" language. We need to make an effort to extract ourselves from the national obsession with DT's lunacy and get a little obsessed with framing the values embodied in the laws that are under attack in ways that "get through."

We all need practice in this. Old habits die hard and all. Maybe even ask skinner to start a "reframing" topic where interested DUers can share ideas, concrete examples, more effective progressive "memes," letters, and whatnot (would need a better title than reframing tho).

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