08-14-2021, 03:52 PM
(08-11-2021, 11:31 AM)David Horn Wrote:(08-10-2021, 12:52 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I hope you have all seen this video; it should be required viewing for any concerned person. He cuts to the chase here.
It's unsurprising that we're not winning the war of words. We, as George Bernard Shaw once noted, refuse to use the ones with real power. For example, on the COVID issue we have GOP governors making political hay on "freedom to choose" -- nevermind that exercises of freedom as they see it endangers the lives of all of us. It's atomic Me versus communal Us. A good counter narrative is simple: exercising their freedom is killing their own children and ours too. That may seem unwarranted, but it's no more extreme than the rhetoric Republicans use every day. Maybe turnaboubt is fully justified this time.
Absolutely justified, yes.