It is my fantasy that we have a Dem convention where we only ever say what we're for and what we'll do. Mostly, because this is what's proven to mobilize and persuade. But also because nothing would anger those we oppose more than us rendering them not even worth naming.
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[the other day, I was arguing the other side of this, however - ] reading this, am thinking of • "Stop Apartheid!" • "Abolish slavery!" What if the challenge = creatively focus on the story/image of both problem & solution without letting the problem define the terms?
End apartheid is an interesting counter. I don’t think ending enslavement happened as a persuasion campaign in US (rather it was a war.) In Britain quite famously framed in the positive & in moral terms. Civil rights similarly - freedom, equality, Dream not stop/don’t/not
