"In a private club 54 floors above the convention hall they monitored the party they infiltrated."

[KoKo]

34. Thanks "MF" for Reminding us what has gone down the "Memory Hole"

that needs to be revisited for us to move forward as Progressive Democrats.

So much disruption and disinformation distracts us from reflecting on causes for why we are where we are these days politically.

I spent some time this morning re-reading old articles by George Lakoff the Linguistics Professor at MIT who wrote his first book in 1997 and whose articles on how Democrats need to be better at "Framing" Progressive issues caused quite a stir on the Dem Blogging Scene in 2003. It was incredible reading those older articles and realizing how, even though his work was taken seriously by Dem Progressive Bloggers, it somehow never got into practice in effective ways for the rest of the Dem Party.

He has done some YouTubes through the years and this one is about the "ACA" and how it could have been successfully "Framed" by Democrats to counteract the attacks of the Republicans. He gets a little wonky in the middle about his research on the Brain but it's worth staying with the video to be reminded of something we should have learned to do better by now.

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George Lakoff, "Retaking Political Discourse"