Frames

This meme highlights the difference between the Parties. Progressives need to do a better job at framing to reach across this divide to win over some of the conservatives who are being manipulated by those effective yet insidious lies.

As Hartmann notes, a large part of it is that the Repugs have established huge media networks that hammer these lies home repeatedly. Progressives have far fewer and less powerful media networks. And yet what media they do have via the internet and YouTube, like The Young Turks and Rising, some  progressives are themselves fooled by the establishment media's framing of them as being extreme, unproductive and therefore easily dismissed. Corporate media framing is insidious and effective and we the people must not let it fool us. We need to support our progressive media sources if we have any hope of defeating the establishment.