So I’m listening to NPR today, and there it was, Teen Sex!
Gay marriage is out and Teen Sex is in. The right is going to scream and yell about Teen Sex. We are going to get so much Teen Sex it’s going to be coming out of our ears.
Democrats and the ‘liberal media’ will be blamed for the rise in Teen Sex, and will be said to give it tacit approval by refusing to enact draconian spying on American citizens to stop this scourge of morality from destroying our country.
I have no desire to talk about Teen Sex as a national issue, but it’s going to be there and the ‘Moral Majority’ are going to be up in arms once again about an issue that is best dealt with at the family level.
I think the best thing to stop the wholesale takeover of our elections by a private, personal and/or family issue is to get out in front of the curve on it.
I’m not saying that we should talk about it, which is why I did not post this on the Daily Kos – far too big a fish for this low value issue. There is no reason to give this issue legs and do the Right’s work for them.
Besides, Daily Kos is not about developing language, developing strategy, or developing anything. That kind of stuff is best done where the majority of the participants are thinking and acting outside of blind party loyalty.
I don’t want to inform Democrats about the coming political storm that is Teen Sex, I want to develop language and tactics to destroy this wedge issue before it gets into the public debate.
If thinking people spend some time working out the language, strategy, and tactics of this soon to be wedge issue, and we do it effectively, we can kill it off easily.
If this gets dropped in our laps without preparation, we are in for a long, dirty election that ignores the important issues facing our country.
It is my opinion that the best way to get this issue to die quietly is to place the blame where it belongs, and that is on the Corporate Agenda.
Big Media Corporations and Communications Corporations, and to a lesser extent, hotel chains are responsible for this Sexual Circus, and that is where we should lay the blame to the problem.
This issue will be run as personal. It will attempt to attach personal responsibility to the Larry Flints of the world. In fact, I think Larry Flint will be a major focal point on this issue.
We must not let this go to that personal level which is going to be astonishingly hard, as the thought of children engaging in hardcore sex at a young age is just about the farthest thing from good that American Parents can think of.
We must talk about this issue as a personal and familial responsibility, and do our best to push responsibility upon the corporations that are making hundreds of billions of dollars peddling Teen Sex.
I’d like to know what you all think of this.
Am I reading the Corporate Media tea leaves wrong?
Is this going to be an issue in ’08?
If so, how will it shake out?
How do the various political factions line up on this issue?
Do you think we can stop it?
If so, How?
Any language, strategy or tactics you can think of?