What’s in a Word? Everything, Just Ask Republicans
The general consensus is Democrats may lose big in 2014, but that doesn’t have to be. They can rip a page from the Republicans’ playbook to turn this thing around.
What am I babbling about? I am referring to rewording and coded language—and the Grand Ole Party is brilliant at both.
Comedian Bill Maher offered some advice to Democrats Friday on his HBO show which was ingenious. He thinks they need to change how they describe their policies and programs to voters.
Republicans in Washington, on talk radio and television—namely, Fox—are experts at spin and use coded language and rewording to either fire up the hate, fear, ignorance or resentment of their base or mobilize them into action.
One of their most memorable rewordings was changing “Affordable Care Act” to “Obamacare.”
You see, to inflame hearts and minds against President Barack Hussein Obama, they took his signature piece of legislation and wiped his foreign, Muslim-sounding name all over it.