I would suggest a good first step would be to stop accepting the establishment vocabulary that slaps on the “leftist” label knowing they’ve firmly established it as the dichotomous opposite of “MAGA”. We’re working with a deeply gaslit population indoctrinated by experts, and that’s going to be a major obstacle unless we learn how to get around it.
I would suggest a good first step would be to stop accepting the establishment vocabulary that slaps on the “leftist” label knowing they’ve firmly established it as the dichotomous opposite of “MAGA”. We’re working with a deeply gaslit population indoctrinated by experts, and that’s going to be a major obstacle unless we learn how to get around it.
I agree with Varn that the left is too obsessed with trying to get messaging right. We need organizing skills a lot more than skills related to using the right words. If messaging is in an organizing context cool. If it's just more internet stuff it doesn't matter.
It’s not about the messaging. It’s about how the messaging is presented. And people are so addicted to repeating their cherished ideological scripts they refuse to even consider that using the other side’s language just reinforces the propaganda the other side already has installed, ready to trigger resistance and outrage at the drop of the cue-word.
I would suggest a good first step would be to stop accepting the establishment vocabulary that slaps on the “leftist” label knowing they’ve firmly established it as the dichotomous opposite of “MAGA”. We’re working with a deeply gaslit population indoctrinated by experts, and that’s going to be a major obstacle unless we learn how to get around it.
I agree with Varn that the left is too obsessed with trying to get messaging right. We need organizing skills a lot more than skills related to using the right words. If messaging is in an organizing context cool. If it's just more internet stuff it doesn't matter.
It’s not about the messaging. It’s about how the messaging is presented. And people are so addicted to repeating their cherished ideological scripts they refuse to even consider that using the other side’s language just reinforces the propaganda the other side already has installed, ready to trigger resistance and outrage at the drop of the cue-word.