re: #2 William of Orange

George Lakoff, the cognitive science guy, was writing about this on DKos today. In line with his previous work, he was basically pointing out that people won’t care about the fact checking: the Pledge is simply fluff with the right buzzwords in there: liberty, low taxes, respect for “traditional” (i.e., white male Christian) American culture etc.

His claim (which I more or less agree with) is that there’s no point trying to pick it apart, because that just reinforces the “frame”. If people are opposed to it, they need to be putting their own views out there, not just trying to point out the logical flaws in their opponents’ views.