One day they can try to explain to their grandchildren how the two words Democratic Socialism were so scary that they...

[Ol Janx Spirit]

...just couldn't possibly even try to keep the billionaires and trillionaires from vacuuming up every piece and every card and every bill on the Monopoly board and leave them with nothing.

They can explain how when they were given a choice between ensuring there would be affordable healthcare, living wages, affordable housing, and accessible childcare, or allowing the billionaires and trillionaires to develop technologies that took their jobs, destroyed the planet, and rendered self-governance useless, they were too afraid of labels to even look for the truth.

Democrats want you to have a better life; Republicans want you to live with the scraps left behind by billionaires and trillionaires--if there even are any.

They can call it whatever they like.

It should not be this hard to convince people that they should be far more afraid of what the billionaires and trillionaires have in store for their futures than anything Democrats could ever even conjure up--but here we are....

[rampartd]

1. a sheep lives his entire life in fear of wolves

but it is the shepherd who kills most of them.

[DFW]

2. Scary?

I don’t find it scary. I don’t find it at all. Like the Big Bad Wolf or the Wicked Witch of the West, it is a concept used to scare those who still think there is really something to fear. Slogans don’t scare me—just those who use them to convince those who want to be convinced of something; those who think manipulation is preferable to winning over with reason (less work, probably).

Like Bush II’s “compassionate conservatism.” In the beginning, he got away with the slogan. It took less than a year for it to have disappeared from their dialogue. Sometimes the left latches onto a slogan they can’t let go of, either. For example, the once-powerful and once-respected Social Democrats here in Germany adopted the election campaign phrase “mehr Gerechtigkeit” or “more justice.” That did so well that it got them their lowest number ever in a national election, namely barely above 20%. That worked so well that they used it again four years later in the next election. That brought them UNDER 20% for the first time ever. A little imagination never hurt anyone except unthinking bureaucrats. The SPD, not coincidentally, is the party of the bureaucrats in Germany.