Comments on: A Failure to Communicate—Not a Failure to Govern http://www.leveesnotwar.org/a-failure-to-communicate/ Rebuilding New Orleans, Louisiana, and the Gulf Coast. Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:36:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Levees Not War http://www.leveesnotwar.org/a-failure-to-communicate/comment-page-1/#comment-3686 Levees Not War Fri, 05 Nov 2010 01:47:11 +0000 http://www.leveesnotwar.org/?p=3873#comment-3686 Thanx, Pat. (I was reading your Radio today, BTW.) Yes, George Lakoff, author of “Whose Freedom?”, at an NYPL forum on propaganda called “Orwell Comes to America” in 2007 said the Democrats always get it wrong when they try to appeal to voters’ self-interest. Dems use what he called the Enlightenment fallacy, the supposition that you only need to present the facts and people will reach the right conclusions. Not so. Republicans go for visceral emotions and self-interest. He said the moral appeal is best, the argument that it’s the right thing to do. Don’t try to appeal to self-interest, which the Democrats are never successful at doing persuasively anyway.

]]> By: Cousin Pat from Georgia http://www.leveesnotwar.org/a-failure-to-communicate/comment-page-1/#comment-3685 Cousin Pat from Georgia Fri, 05 Nov 2010 01:36:10 +0000 http://www.leveesnotwar.org/?p=3873#comment-3685 Democratic political operatives tend to focus on GOTV runs and think people will automatically discard right-wing narratives from the land of make believe.

The results of this election teach us (again) how wrong that sort of thinking is.

The other side is always marketing, alwasy messaging. If there isn’t a policital issue they can win on, they will CREATE ONE to throw people off (look at the curve ball that insane “Ground Zero Mosque” meme threw into things).

]]> By: Levees Not War http://www.leveesnotwar.org/a-failure-to-communicate/comment-page-1/#comment-3679 Levees Not War Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:47:56 +0000 http://www.leveesnotwar.org/?p=3873#comment-3679 Thanks, Ron. We shouldn’t have to remind them to remind us of all they’ve done, but apparently we do.

]]> By: Ron http://www.leveesnotwar.org/a-failure-to-communicate/comment-page-1/#comment-3675 Ron Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:31:55 +0000 http://www.leveesnotwar.org/?p=3873#comment-3675 Mark – this is a great post. Thanks for reminding me of all the Democrats have accomplished. I’m always frustrated that it seems like they’ve accomplished so little – but putting it into historical perspective they’ve actually done a lor.

]]> By: Levees Not War http://www.leveesnotwar.org/a-failure-to-communicate/comment-page-1/#comment-3665 Levees Not War Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:48:24 +0000 http://www.leveesnotwar.org/?p=3873#comment-3665 Thanks, Sharon. Hey, how about that name tag you promised? Without it I don’t know who I am. Thanks! —ML

]]> By: Sophmom http://www.leveesnotwar.org/a-failure-to-communicate/comment-page-1/#comment-3661 Sophmom Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:55:30 +0000 http://www.leveesnotwar.org/?p=3873#comment-3661 I will have to read tonight after work, but just based on your title, you’ve hit the nail on the head. I hears one woman voter interviewed on NPR saying she voted straight Republican because of the bank bail-out. I wanted to scream. Plouffe must never, ever leave again, not for even one day.

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