Change the language [View All]

I read some of Lakoff's work. It is impressive how he figured out how liberals and conservatives think. And use language. Neocons have many think tanks to create catch phrases, hire writers to write books that support their views, release press releases that make liberals look bad, and so on. They have been doing this for 30 years.

Now, we can turn the tables. Many here like to use the word "worker". Check the CAFTA threads and it's always workers. I'd recommend we change that to employees. What is the difference? Perception.

By using worker, what do people think of? Construction workers, truckers, union members, blue collars, factories, and communism for others (proletarian is the working class). That is how conservatives link liberals to communism: near constant talk of the working class. Which also alienates moderate and conservative middle class people as well. Which sounds more enbracing: CAFTA is bad for American workers or CAFTA is bad for American employees?

Since conservatives hate communism, we can make Republicans defend bankruptcy bail-outs for corporations aka corporate communism. See, when a government gives away money to a corporation to pay it's bills and debts while it doesn't provide anything in exchange, it's communism. Most people aren't familiar with communism to know what it really is so we can use that association with hate to put Republicans on the defense.

Just try it next time against a freeper and see how it does.