Author: jimpol

The dialogue about framing the other day leads to an interesting question:  How is the sense of powerfulness and actual effective political power, connected with framing?

Let’s consider two imaginary political people:

• An empowered, values-based person who can’t communicate
• A disempowered, internally chaotic person who is an effective communicator

(sorry if these are a bit harsh!)

Progressives currently fall into the first category.  They are highly motivated by altruistic morality and feel very confident about it.  Yet they speak in ways that often do not trigger passion in voters nor even convey meaning in a clear way.

Repub operatives tend to fall into the second category.  They have achieved power by becoming excellent at framing and communicating distorted worldviews with voters and these resonate.  Yet internally their reality is a mass of contradictions and moral vacuity.

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