Via Truthout: Storytelling as Organizing: How to Rescue the Left From Its Crisis of Imagination

Adam Kader, In These Times: "In an editorial in In These Times' November 2009 issue, reflecting on the right's success at re-framing the healthcare reform debate in its favor, Kevin O'Donnell wrote, 'When it comes to messaging, Republicans believe in science. Democrats don't.' To their detriment, 'Democrats cling to the idea, disproved by science and electoral experience, that if you present the facts, people will reason their way to the right conclusion.' Republicans, on the other hand, know to use 'simple words, short sentences and a heavy dose of repetition.'"

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