Do Not Expect Impeachment Hearings to change Trump Supporter minds - Not if...
Brian Stelter at CNN Business spent Wednesday watching the impeachment hearings through the filter of Fox News. ...Here's how I would sum up everything I heard from Fox's prime time hosts: Wednesday's...
View ArticleFraming the News
I took a core sample of broadcast news on the evening of November 23, 2019, on NBC. There were brief glimpses of the president’s tweeted and shouted responses to this week’s public impeachment...
View ArticleTrump will win if Democrats let the Right control the message.
Most Americans blame both parties for not getting anything done in Washington. You would think every Democrat in Congress would repeat and repeat the fact that the Democratic majority in the House has...
View ArticleDark Money Is Attacking Democrats Over Impeachment: the messaging battle...
Several days ago I wrote about something I’d seen:Are You Seeing What I’m Seeing? TV Attack Ads on Democrats for supporting “Partisan Impeachment”The impeachment hearings have adjourned — for now — but...
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Broadcast Propaganda of Our Age is Destroying Us. How Do We Save Ourselves?
Are we frustrated with those Trump voters yet? Or perhaps the question should be: are we frustrated with the way the press covers this conundrum?When did you start tuning out all those articles about...
View ArticleHere we go again: Campaign press ignoring Democratic policy
There's been a complete transformation in how the campaign press covers elections in the last decade, and it's a defining change that's benefiting Republicans, and specifically Donald Trump. The change...
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Who tells the"Truth"? America's News Crisis
Try to envision the average, politics hating American who watches Fox News, or any other news show. Whom do they trust to give objective reporting? Or perhaps they watch Fox for news that fits their...
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Is this a rule here? If not, it should be. Please Stop Bashing ( real)...
I believe everyone has a right to choose to believe or not believe in their own way. What I don’t believe in, is that some of the non believers commenting with their slurs of others commenters who...
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How We Communicate Matters: Using Simpler Language to Talk to Trump Voters
Update 2: Simplified the Title.UPDATED: edited last paragraph — thanks, Lovejoy :)Hear me out, please :)I thought about this subject while responding to a comment on Dem’s diary this morning: Morning...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meetup: Talk Bodily Autonomy; Not Abortion, Fetuses, Personhood
Them: I’m against abortion and want the state to prevent women from getting them.Me: So, you don’t believe in democracy, then?———I don’t ask that question with snark or derision. It’s a genuine...
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New Book About Trump Language that Provokes Violence
Soon after the Tree of Life attack I posted here about how the attacker and mail bomber both were triggered by Trump’s language. I have since developed that into a book, due in June and available for...
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Good News Thursday: Better than Reparations?
Birmingham jailer to MLK: What do you people want? MLK: Respect. Wise man. Everything else would follow from that. But short of full respect, what do our Black brothers and sisters want? Would...
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Evening Shade: The Language of tRumpism
Way back in the day, before Nixon, grammarians described four types of statements: declarative, interrogatory, exclamatory and imperative. In the intervening decades new types of statements have...
View ArticleAll Alone But All Together - Africa Prepares For the Pandemic With Song:...
While our usual Sunday diarist is recovering from a broken finger (making typing painful), here are three uplifting songs that are making their way across social media throughout Africa and now across...
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Earth Emotions | On Glenn A. Albrecht's Creation Of New Words About Climate...
As noted in a previous diary in this series of Resistance Words it was the book by Glenn A. Albrecht called Earth Emotions that contributed towards my creating the Resistance Words group. Consider...
View ArticleLaetus in Praesens | Clarification of the meaning of Impeached "Donald Trump"...
Resistance Words mission is to bring the Democratic Party new words and concepts that will allow us to elect more and better Democrats. It is my thesis that the Democratic party is handacaped by not...
View ArticleThe Death of Historical Memory in George Lakoff's Advice to the Democratic Party
Dear Citizens and Elected Officials:In one of the small, important Email conversations among citizens, between 10 or 12 of us out here in Western Maryland, a recent posting by George Lakoff was offered...
View ArticleResistance Words - Meta Diary | The Missing Introduction To The Resistance...
Resistance Words is a Daily Kos group to bring attention to words and concepts that advance the Democratic Party goals of good governance and the Daily Kos goals of electing more and better Democrats...
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Earth Emotions | On Glenn A. Albrecht's Creation Of New Words About Climate...
This image is from a presentation shared on LinkedIn by Glenn Albrecht PhD. The picture is used on the cover of Albrecht’s book Earth Emotions. As I was able to download the presentation and found...
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The Difference Between Stochastic Murder and Stochastic Terrorism
These two recent Daily Kos stories, Health care worker in WY partied while waiting for COVID-19 test--and tested positive and Donald Trump is personally responsible for the death of thousands of...
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