Democracy for America Meetup:7pm tonight to watch Lakoff DVD

[papau]

From Howard Dean

http://www.democracyforamerica.com/helpasia

We are engaged in another kind of rebuilding here at home -- rebuilding our party, our democracy and our sense of community. At stake in the coming year is nothing less than what kind of society we will be. And to shape America we have to start locally.

Join us at 7 PM tonight in your community for the Democracy for America Meetup:

http://dfa.meetup.com

This month your local group will present a special DVD from Professor George Lakoff, who is fast becoming one of the most influential thinkers in the progressive movement.

His work has helped us understand how conservatives use language to reinforce their positions. Take, for example, when corporate elites set their sites on repealing the estate tax, which only affects a few thousand people with multimillion-dollar estates. They coined the phrase "death tax" in order to bamboozle ordinary non-millionaires into supporting the repeal.

Conservative politicians and Fox News anchors simply stopped calling it the estate tax and adopted the new phrase. Soon Democrats were calling it the "death tax", too -- even as they tried to explain why it should stay on the books (so that massive wealth doesn't become permanently concentrated in the hands of just a few).

In order to rebuild our party and communicate our values, we have to understand how the other side works and avoid this kind of trap. Tonight's DVD will spark a discussion at your Meetup -- and the lessons learned will be crucial to our success. Please join us tonight:

http://dfa.meetup.com

[Maat]

1. Thanks, papau.

I refer people to our Democracy for America DU Group. Many of us are planning to attend.