Reply #45: The intent of framing is inclusiveness [View All]

[Lorien]

"issue A is important to me; and this is why issue A should be important to you, too" is basically what one does when one frames an issue, so I disagree with you on your assertion that framing crates distancing. Very bad framing, perhaps-but successful framing can only crate unity by providing a unified vision of an issue.

I was not being defensive, I was stressing a fact (and I don't have the HTML skills needed to create italics); there is no rule anywhere that states that a "talking point" needs to be a contrived falsehood (as so many here seem to believe). Democrats need only to USE the facts to advance our agenda, and the damnedest thing is that many seem to be skirting around them. The facts are on our side; let's present them clearly and effectively (and yes, talking points should be used to advance a message in today's media, otherwise the message gets drowned out and lost). The party is all over the place on pretty much every issue as it stands; we MUST find a way to deliver cohesive and unified messages, otherwise the perception that democrats "don't stand for anything" will persist.