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Conceptual Guerilla writes:

Have you got three minutes? Because that’s all you need to learn how to
defeat the Republican Right. Just read through this handy guide and you’ll
have everything you need to successfully debunk right-wing propaganda.

It’s really that simple. First, you have to beat their ideology, which
really isn’t that difficult. At bottom, conservatives believe in a social
hierarchy of “haves” and “have nots” that I call “corporate
feudalism“‘. They have taken this corrosive social vision and dressed
it up with a “respectable” 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 “drum beat”. You have to defeat the “propaganda machine”, that
brainwashes people with their slogans and catch-phrases. You’ve heard
those slogans.”Less government“, “personal
responsibility” and lots of flag waving. They are “shorthand” 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 “counter-slogan” really, to
“deprogram” the brainwashed. You need a “magic bullet” that quickly and
efficiently destroys the effectiveness of their “drum beat”. You need your
own “drum beat” that sums up the right’s position. Only your “drum beat”
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. That’s why it works. You can see it
in every policy, and virtually all of Republican rhetoric. And it’s so
easy to remember, and captures the essence of the Republican Right so
well, we can pin it on them like a “scarlet letter”.

Is there really a catch phrase – a “magic bullet” – that sums up the
Republican Right in such a nice easy-to-grasp package. You better believe
it, and it’s downright elegant in its simplicity.

You want to know what that “magic bullet” is, don’t you. Read on.
You’ve still got two minutes.

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