It was noted many years ago that conservatives apply shorthand bumper sticker terms to difficult problems, primarily to get their voters to vote the way they want. âFamily valuesâ, &c.
In 2011 a blogger suggested liberals could do the same, and essentially tag all of conservative ideology. He pointed out essentially the entirety of Movement Conservative can be summed up as âcheap labor conservatives.â
Heâs pretty much right. If you look at every thing conservatism has done in our nation, it all points back to âcheap labor.â (You wonât deprogram everyone, but you might get a few, especially if theyâre sitting on the fence from right-wing propaganda)
Defeat the Right in Three Minutes (goes to Conceptual Guerilla, more at the link):
Itâs really that simple. First, you have to beat their ideology, which really isnât that difficult. At bottom, conservatives believe in a social hierarchy of âhavesâ and âhave notsâ that I call âcorporate feudalismâ. They have taken this corrosive social vision and dressed it up with a ârespectableâ sounding ideology. That ideology is pure hogwash, and you can prove it.
But you have to do more than defeat the ideology. You have to defeat the âdrum beatâ. You have to defeat the âpropaganda machineâ, that brainwashes people with their slogans and catch-phrases. Youâve heard those slogans.âLess governmentâ, âpersonal responsibilityâ and lots of flag waving. They are âshorthandâ for an entire worldview, and the right has been pounding their slogans out into the public domain for getting on forty years.
So you need a really good slogan - a âcounter-sloganâ really, to âdeprogramâ the brainwashed. You need a âmagic bulletâ that quickly and efficiently destroys the effectiveness of their âdrum beatâ. You need your own âdrum beatâ that sums up the rightâs position. Only your âdrum beatâ exposes the ugly reality of right-wing philosophy - the reality their slogans are meant to hide. Our slogan contains the governing concept that explains the entire right-wing agenda. Thatâs why it works. You can see it in every policy, and virtually all of Republican rhetoric. And itâs so easy to remember, and captures the essence of the Republican Right so well, we can pin it on them like a âscarlet letterâ.