white_wolf
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Mon Sep-05-11 10:20 PM
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Bumper sticker messaging. |
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This may be a totally stupid post, and I'll likely regret posting it, but does anyone else think the left could benefit from short soundbite style messages. I've heard Thom Hartman say a few times that one of the reasons the Right is so successful is because they have a good message strategy. So do you all think we could benefit from coming up with a few short soundbite messages and putting them on bumper-stickers and the like, just short messages that sort of summarize our views? Kind of like slogans I guess. I've got one in mind, feel free to add more. Here is mine: "Socialism: It was good enough for Einstein"
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Mon Sep-05-11 10:26 PM
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1. We need to attract people from the left end of the right wing, independents, undecideds... |
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I don't think that "Socialism: It was good enough for Einstein" is going to help with that.
Better, I think, to use facts, to appeal to the middle class and working person (and unemployed person).
"Socialism" is just not going to sell any of them to our candidates.
sry.
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Mon Sep-05-11 11:03 PM
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2. If one is brain dead there ain't nothing going to get through. nt |
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Mon Sep-05-11 11:07 PM
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3. Mine: "Money is not speech, and corporations are not people" |
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Mon Sep-05-11 11:10 PM
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You can even use the "not equal to" sign and "dollar" sign to make it fit.
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Tue Sep-06-11 03:04 AM
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8. "if corporations are people, can we execute them for treason?" n/t |
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Mon Sep-05-11 11:09 PM
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4. It would not hurt at all |
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to have effective bumper sticker messaging.
But I honestly don't think "Socialism: It was good enough for Einstein" is a good message. For one thing, it requires a lot of explaining. As in: Really? I had no idea Einstein was a socialist. I knew he was Jewish and moved to this country in the 1930's, I think to escape Hitler. See what I mean? It raises more questions than it answers.
Back during the first W administration, I had some bumper stickers made up. My best one was: He wasn't elected on 9/11 either. That's obviously much too dated to use these days.
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Mon Sep-05-11 11:16 PM
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6. It needs to be simple... like |
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"Renewable Energy is Homeland Security"
I got this from a Google search hit of bumper stickers. Believe it or not, they had one that said, "Rejecting Socialism is not Racism... It's Patriotism" I'm sure that's a message all the tea baggers get.
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Tue Sep-06-11 02:54 AM
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7. We need welfare for real people--not for corporations. nt |
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Tue Sep-06-11 03:10 AM
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9. Actually -- I like buttons -- people don't like to put stickers on their cars -- !! |
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MEDICARE FOR ALL --
STOP THE WARS --
SHUT DOWN US NUCLEAR REACTORS --
STOP OBAMA ATTACKS ON SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE --
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Politics is like driving a car: D to go forward -- R to go backward
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