For example, I want to expand SNAP and WIC AND raise the minimum wage so that government (food support) and the business community (higher worker pay) obliterate hunger in this country.
No more hunger! No food insecurity! It’s so easy and cheap and the right thing to do!
America with no food insecurity tomorrow! Let’s do this! We have the money! And elders and kids are facing very high levels of food insecurity. Let’s fix this!
Please continue the excellent work of making sense of the kabuki theater of reality we are immersed in! I applaud the research and analysis your organization provides in this desert of misinformation and gaslighting.
Agree with the other commenters that the Overton Window is a good way to frame this key issue - hang on to reality. It does not change. Well written and well put together. Will share …
An excellent piece of work, please continue. Establishing the Overton Window as the best framework to use on the Regime&Co's daily assaults on our Democracy clearly sets the field of view. It gives us a reliable frame of reference, a cage, and keeps the demented assaults clear and present, and keeping us Steady and not deapairing.
Read "The Reality Creators." The book discusses how we need to imagine what the ruling class is doing (those who create our political and economic reality) so we can preempt them -- head them off at the pass. In this case, the immediate problem is the authoritarianism under Trump, but the long-term problem has always been neoliberals who are smooth operators.
If we don't think about what's ahead, then we'll just keep playing the catch-up game and tattle-tailing on what they've already done (e.g., investigative journalists, professors, researchers, etc.). We need to be thinking as creatively as the Reality Creators if we are ever to get ahead of them and establish for ourselves our own lives free from their dominance.
The "Reality Creators" builds an entire critique of our political economy on this premise.
Thank you for writing this!
I was just thinking yesterday about the Overton Window and how this regime is using it!
Beautifully written, wise, helpful & hopeful essay!
Can the Overton window work the other way?
For example, I want to expand SNAP and WIC AND raise the minimum wage so that government (food support) and the business community (higher worker pay) obliterate hunger in this country.
No more hunger! No food insecurity! It’s so easy and cheap and the right thing to do!
America with no food insecurity tomorrow! Let’s do this! We have the money! And elders and kids are facing very high levels of food insecurity. Let’s fix this!
Please continue the excellent work of making sense of the kabuki theater of reality we are immersed in! I applaud the research and analysis your organization provides in this desert of misinformation and gaslighting.
Agree with the other commenters that the Overton Window is a good way to frame this key issue - hang on to reality. It does not change. Well written and well put together. Will share …
An excellent piece of work, please continue. Establishing the Overton Window as the best framework to use on the Regime&Co's daily assaults on our Democracy clearly sets the field of view. It gives us a reliable frame of reference, a cage, and keeps the demented assaults clear and present, and keeping us Steady and not deapairing.
That's why I don't follow the bogus distractions Trump puts out.
And yes, to catch a crook it helps to think like a crook.
Read "The Reality Creators." The book discusses how we need to imagine what the ruling class is doing (those who create our political and economic reality) so we can preempt them -- head them off at the pass. In this case, the immediate problem is the authoritarianism under Trump, but the long-term problem has always been neoliberals who are smooth operators.
If we don't think about what's ahead, then we'll just keep playing the catch-up game and tattle-tailing on what they've already done (e.g., investigative journalists, professors, researchers, etc.). We need to be thinking as creatively as the Reality Creators if we are ever to get ahead of them and establish for ourselves our own lives free from their dominance.
The "Reality Creators" builds an entire critique of our political economy on this premise.