{"id":23521,"date":"2014-01-02T11:34:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T16:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=23521"},"modified":"2015-02-22T11:13:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T16:13:59","slug":"qotd-why-progressive-policy-ideas-get-more-media-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/01\/02\/qotd-why-progressive-policy-ideas-get-more-media-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Why progressive policy ideas get more media attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When it comes to crafting winning political narratives, progressives have a natural advantage over conservatives. That\u2019s because progressives have a free hand to project rosy visions of the future while conservatives must constantly defend against progressives\u2019 distorted depictions of the past.<\/p>\n<p>Two fundamental techniques undergird progressives\u2019 success at narrative spinning. The first is skillful framing of the debate through investing heavily in public opinion making machinery. This disarms critics while giving lawmakers cover to vote for bills they\u2019ve neither read nor understood. Thus framed, policies are judged only by their stated intentions, never their actual results. This allows politicians to promote new pieces of legislation named for their lofty objectives, even if the thousands of pages of vague and contradictory content deliver just the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>The second is dodging all responsibility for failure. This is accomplished by blaming insufficient resources, the prior administration, the greedy 1 percent, sabotage by Republicans, or even the people\u2019s obdurate failure to appreciate the progressive benefits conferred upon them. When the going gets tough, reality can be dismissed with a slogan. Forward!<\/p>\n<p>Bill Frezza, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/billfrezza\/2013\/12\/30\/2103-the-year-the-progressive-narrative-collided-with-reality\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;2013: The Year The Progressive Narrative Collided With Reality&#8221;, <em>Forbes<\/em><\/a>, 2013-12-30<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to crafting winning political narratives, progressives have a natural advantage over conservatives. That\u2019s because progressives have a free hand to project rosy visions of the future while conservatives must constantly defend against progressives\u2019 distorted depictions of the past. Two fundamental techniques undergird progressives\u2019 success at narrative spinning. The first is skillful framing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,41,13],"tags":[698,428,213,51,1020,661,101],"class_list":["post-23521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-congress","tag-marketing","tag-newspapers","tag-pr","tag-progressives","tag-regulation","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-67n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23522,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23521\/revisions\/23522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}