Framing the Debate with "Progressive" Values
Organizing people and campaigns is one thing, but any organized campaign must have a clear message to reach the people. After all, the goal of these campaigns isn't so much to "convince" those in positions of authority (often they simply don't care, because the system works for them), but to convince the people as a whole that change can happen. When the people are united and organized, they have the power to enact change. Convincing people that they do in fact have the power is the hard part, and part of that relies on spreading a vision people believe in -- a vision for how our social systems can be changed into ones that work for all people and not just wealth oligarchs. George Lakoff, a linguistics and cognitive science expert, argues in his short book "Don't Think of An Elephant!" that communicating that vision is one of the major failures of the left over the last few decades. In particular, right-wing ideas have permeated our culture and gove