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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (496185)

8/6/2022 11:36:49 AM

From: koan

Respond to of 540925

That is not what that article said. That is what you read into it. Find the word progressive in it, and the article said the noise meant nothing.

koan: "Some are going to think that the progressives were trying to be stupid in Kansas. The article said young and old, but also said the bickering meant nothing.

I would bet the people who designed it were mostly older progressives, the article just doesn't say, but the way they did it is the way anyone with good sense would do it."

"Even before the leak, activist groups and establishment insiders were bickering over whether Democrats should freely and proudly use the word abortion or rely more on indirect phrases like “reproductive freedom.”

These disputes reflected generational and ideological divides in the Democratic Party, between moderate elders accustomed to playing defense in the abortion debate and younger progressives eager to seize the offensive.

But for those who won the fight to protect abortion rights in Kansas, all that noise meant nothing.

Kansans for Constitutional Freedom, the group that led the campaign to defeat the constitutional amendment intended to permit abortion bans, developed a messaging strategy that resonated across the political spectrum and eschewed purity tests.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (496185)	8/6/2022 12:00:51 PM
From: S. maltophilia	Respond to of 540925

"Avoiding progressive pieties, the ad makers aimed at the broad, persuadable middle of the electorate." Exactly what Sam's been talking about. I think they were brilliant in portraying the issue in terms of government intrusion instead of a moral issue. Moral issues are between the person involved and her version of a deity. Government involvement in moral/theological issues is about as inappropriate as it was in 3rd century Rome. And avoiding the word "choice" was effective. Choice is between the red dress and the yellow one at the mall. Decision acknowledges the gravity of he situation. I don't remember how that terminology emerged. I was always irritated by the use of "pro-life" when being on the opposite side of that formulation connoted either "pro-abortion" or "anti-life."