Did I just stumble onto something?

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Brainstorm! I posted this in another thread. While humbly submitted, I think it just might be a talking-point winner:

The cost of doing nothing!!!
I hope everybody tattoos those five words PERMANENTLY on their hearts, minds, and tongues!!!

Figuratively speaking, of course.

OMG! That is IT!!!!!!!!

“The cost of doing nothing”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I swear! THERE’S your one-stop-shopping retort to the nonstop whiny-ass complaining, lying, misinformation-spreading, fault-finding, and the ever-reliable republi-CON obstruction disease!

Plant OUR OWN “seeds of doubt”! Punch lethal holes in the enemy’s entire foundational construct.

Plant that gnawing little doubt, water and feed it with relentless repetition, and watch it grow!!!!!

I’d love to hear your thoughts!

And meanwhile, PLEASE pass this on! We have to start doing this en masse. Collectively. And inevitably, corrosively! Many hands make light work, and many voices make a mighty loud noise!

PLEASE consider passing this on!

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1. Sow little seeds of doubt.

Scattered far ‘n’ wide!

Yes, you, too can be Johnny Appleseed! Cuz this can really bear fruit! Especially if we all bear down on it, and bear down HARD!

We ALL can be Johnny Appleseed!

We all SHOULD be Johnny Appleseed!

[Scrivener7]

2. That's kind of awesome. It works for everything.

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3. Thank you!

It should be the biggest, longest, sharpest, and most poison-tipped arrow in our collective quiver.

With a cherry on top!

[H2Oart]

4. Hmmmm

Too much….funny sayings, etc. This party is in major trouble, we need more the little sayings and funny talk. I think we need our leaders and new candidates to be totally transparent and actually tell both sides the way it is. The right have lied too long to their own people, and no one has shown proof of the opposite. Time to change that. How you say? Like this….

1. Candidate asks….show of hands, how many want me to raise your taxes? Boos and no will fill the hall…. Then as a transparent candidate, show a chart on how and when the right wing cuts taxes for the top, the middle and lower class have theirs raised to counter balance… it’s true, mine went up when trump cut to the top. Ask why they vote right wing when this happens.

2 pro life….pro choice…candidate….ask the voters, show of hands, who wants me to tell you what to do with your body? Then say that needs to be a private matter and if asked you are neither pro life or pro choice, because these are political sayings, you are anti-death, you are anti-governmental abortion interference. Perhaps say you respect all women and their choice.

These are samples, but please let’s stop the bullshit talk, and tell the true, transparent way of life. This may be our best way to have the democrats retain majority and move forward.

Time to get out there now, not wait..

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8. But you've gotta catch 'em with a quick hit.

Preferably a clever one.

I always try to keep in mind the whole “Short-Attention-Span Theater” thing. And sloganeering, catchy wordplay, and so-called “bumper sticker politics” (short enough to fit in a bumper sticker) have a way of sticking, latching on, and burrowing in.

If it’s catchy, it might be more memorable. Might be fun to say and to share. Psychologically might make the speaker feel smarter or more clever.

WHATEVER works.

Your point is well-taken though - it’s also an entry line for the smart facts and proof that you describe. You give yourself the added luster of greater credibility in your messaging when you’re well-informed and thus can enlarge on your point.

But as all the great carnival barkers of history understand: first you gotta get ‘em into the tent!

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11. Part of our problem is that whenever someone says, "Let's do this!" someone else comes along

and says, "That's not enough! We need to do this instead!"

We are not all candidates and thus cannot use your suggestions. That doesn't make what we CAN do "bullshit talk."

What the poster suggests is not "bullshit talk." It is a thought provoking response to anything a republiQan can throw at us.

It's useful. And if you haven't noticed, the political world runs on little sayings used repetitively.

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12. Good point!

YES it’s sloganeering. YES it’s sales pitches and simplification - even OVER-simplification.

But it WORKS! It’s effective! It’s a practical and strategic tactic. You think those same damn commercials that run on TV or cable or online round-the-clock are for nothing? It’s mind-manipulation. You keep hearing the guy in the yellow coat talk about Liberty Mutual insurance or the new IHOP “we could all use a pancake” campaign, or the old “betcha can’t eat just one” potato chip commercial, and it’s messaging that’s repeatedly driven into your brain so relentlessly that, by Jove, you happen to drive by an IHOP and realize you’re hungry and “hmmmmm. IHOP. Haven’t thought about that in awhile. Hey, why not?” And ka-ching! IHOP scores another customer, ad buyer toasts the investment in a compelling and effective ad campaign, and customer just might not rule out going to IHOP again sometime, and bring the kids - they’ll love it!

There’s a Blue Dog Congressman repping my district. Can often be counted on to drag his heels and gum up the works and NOT cooperate with the majority because fill-in-the-excuse-here. He’s a charter member of the “Problem Caucus” (I mean the “Problem Solvers Caucus”). But dammit if he doesn’t have one hellluva big-ass ad buy currently running on TV and cable up here in Oregon CD-5.

True, the election’s a year away, but he’s out there all over the airwaves and cable NOW, softening up the ground and building audience identification NOW, and solidifying his power base with voters. “Thank Congressman Schrader for working hard for us…” and that intensively repetitious messaging is drilling down into the viewer’s psyche and embedding like an earwig. And his message is the one whizzing ‘round the world making a stronger and stronger impression while his new primary challenger has barely started getting off the ground.

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13. Well

Well, I somewhat agree, but the bullshit talk was not addressed to the poster, but the candidates themselves. Being transparent is not lying or saying falsehoods to get elected. I hear the lines….” I’m cutting your taxes”, but never say how to replace the lost tax revenue. A transparent candidate would say…….cut taxes and here is what we will be doing to replace the lost tax revenue….

I do somewhat disagree with the we cannot use your suggestions. I have used the abortion argument several times to a few southern stronghold anti abortion ladies here in SC, and did not get stomped on with GOD, murder and illegal…..next time someone talks BS to you about abortion, taxes cuts, etc…..try to think like an honest, transparent senator and see how it goes.

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5. The cost of doing nothing will be much higher than the BBB bill.

Brings to mind the old adage, "A stitch in time saves nine." From Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac, 1732.

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6. A definite "oldie but goodie"!

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7. I believe President Obama said the same thing and I completely agree with you. I like it! n/t

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9. Thank you! And he's right.

You both are.

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10. Kicking.