but, i mean, i think she did. people heard her as the more-of-the-same candidate because she chose that and broadcast it.
do you know the campaign's organizing principle for it? i do. it was "ladders of opportunity".
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do i have to explain what a monumentally failed choice of metaphor that is?
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clearly it failed with enough. But those three words weren't the totality of her platform or detailed plans.
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sure. but to the extent there was a central narrative at all (another major problem), for the economy they were it.
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"ladders of opportunity" seems a good way to climb out of the cycle of poverty. Why is that so ineffective or hard to grasp?
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"You will be fucked" because the anti-Progressive is President with a complicit Congress. "It's your fault" if you abstained.
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that's rather an extreme topic switch
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I'm merely quoted & responded to your self-quoted tweet.
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the topic was the messaging of the "ladders of opportunity" metaphor, your reinterpretation for Trump is cute but irrelevant
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It didn't dawn on me to infer "ladders of opportunity" to be some sort of victim blaming metaphor. Is that what you meant?
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basically. if you have a bunch of people trying to get up a ladder, only some of them are going to make it.
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