22 November 2006

Constructing Narratives

"More than forty years ago, conservative began to tell their story, the one concerning liberal bias. Every voter has heard it now. We haven't even begun to tell ours. Example: Seven years after the War Against Gore, you still can't make liberal "leaders" discuss it. Voters will never understand our world if we refuse to describe it. Often, we liberals seem thankful for the right to doze and gaze off into air."

Indeed, why cannot the Democratic Party construct narratives (factual) to compete with the inane and false Republican Party narratives? Narratives are arguably the most effective way to transmit information. Media, advertising, political, and sport narratives bombard the public everyday. Does a left-wing narrative not have anything to stand on in the "marketplace of ideas." Or are we simply failing to construct? Or, more sinisterly, is someone obstructing our narrative?

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