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April 9, 2021 By Susan C. Strong

New Metaphor Project Strategy

Our current Metaphor Project strategy prioritizes being active on social media over writing blogs. Now that President Biden and Vice President Harris are vigorously pursuing the positive changes our nation so desperately needs, we particularly recommend that you use some of the language we suggest in the PDF available at “Grow Your Impact,” and in […]

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March 29, 2021 By Susan C. Strong

Our new Metaphor Project Strategy 6/04/22

Our new Metaphor Project strategy prioritizes being active on social media over writing blogs. Now that President Biden and Vice President Harris are vigorously pursuing the positive changes our nation so desperately needs, we particularly recommend that you use some of the language we suggest in the following tools on our website, and similar words you […]

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January 30, 2020 By Susan C. Strong

Framing #ClimateDamage for the #ClimateHoldouts

For too long too much of our climate crisis framing has resonated only with the already convinced. That is still going on today, this very minute. Even Greta is doing it, with an important exception I’ll mention later in this piece. But before the rest of us can get more effective, we need to be […]

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Filed Under: American Politics, Environment & Sustainability, Still Featured Tagged With: #ClimateDamage, #FossilFuel, business, capitalism, Chorofluorocarbons, ClimateDamageCosts, ClimateHoldouts, ClimateSafetProfits, economics, finance, framing, oil, organizing, SeatBelts

July 29, 2019 By Susan C. Strong

Use Smart Words to Stop #NukeDoomsday

During this Democratic primary season and even before, a great many longstanding injustices in American life have become high profile: #MeToo, police violence against people of color, the climate crisis, to name just a few. But there’s one still under the public radar: the nuclear threat. The climate crisis will make life on earth increasingly […]

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Filed Under: American Politics, Still Featured Tagged With: #2020Campaign, #2020Candidates, #birddogging, #Ellsberg, #ForeignPolicy, #Iran, #NorthKorea, #nuclear, #NuclearDrones, #NuclearOmnicide, #NuclearWar, #NuclearWinter, #NukeDoomsday, #nukes, #Pentagon, #PoliticalFraming, #RedButton, #Russia, #TheDoomsdayMachine, 2020Election, Congress, House, organizing

July 7, 2019 By Susan C. Strong

Say: “Move America Forward?”  

In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter  to be “Forward, not left, not right!” My explanation for this change was familiar to my readers: always put the positive first. But today I’m suggesting a far more important edit: […]

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Filed Under: American Politics Tagged With: 2020Election, activism, Activists, campaigning, ClimateSafety, Democrats, FairPay, framing, GOP, healthcare, Immigration, jobs, organizing, slogans, SpeakingAmerican

July 6, 2019 By Susan C. Strong

Springing the GOP Trap

 This post was originally written during the Trump presidency but all of the advice in it still applies, no matter who is your opponent. These days every morning brings a new shock to the republic, as Mr. Trump and the GOP drive Americans into bigger and bigger traps. Trump’s most outrageous caper yet, the federal […]

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Filed Under: American Politics, Sticky Featured Tagged With: #AmericanPoliticalFraming, #PoliticalFraming, 2020Election, AffordableCareAct, bipartisan, ChangeCourse, Congress, CounterFraming, GOP, Left, legislation, McConnell, MedicareForAll, organizing, progressve, Shutdown, SinglePayer, SmartWall, TheWall, TrainWreck, Trump

April 6, 2019 By Susan C. Strong

Being Clear About What #TrueAmericanFreedom Means!

Ever since Rep.Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D- NY) and her colleagues launched the Green New Deal resolution, the GOP has been betting they can scare the American electorate with new fears of evil government control.  Their method is to shout some version of “Freedom or Socialism? That is the question for 2020!” But this GOP “freedom” […]

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Filed Under: American Politics, Still Featured Tagged With: #2020, #AynRandTrap, #CarbonFee&Dividend, #CarbonTax, #ClimateCosts, #ClimateDamage, #CommonGood, #ConstitutionalRights, #DaringGreatly, #ethnic, #FossilFuel, #Freedom, #Gender, #GunControl, #GunSafety, #GunSense, #Pentagon, #Reich, #Religion, AffordableCareAct, economy, energy, GOP, MedicareForAll, pollution, SinglePayer

December 19, 2018 By Susan C. Strong

Metaphor Project 2019 Update and News

During 2019 The Metaphor Project will emphasize outreach via our social media pages and blogging platforms on Twitter, our Metaphor Project Facebook page and on my pages at The Daily Kos and OpEdNews, as well as on this website.  In 2019 we’re also reviving our Metaphor Project Salons, starting in February. In these, we consider together what kind of American Political Framing might […]

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October 11, 2018 By Susan C. Strong

GOTV Plus: Revisiting How to frame it “American” Now

If you are doing GOTV this fall, you will be given a party script, of course. But it’s always good to have some more ideas about what else to say, if you get into a real conversation. So here is some review on how to “speak American” now. These days the political framing challenge we […]

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Filed Under: American Politics Tagged With: #election, economy, framing, GOTV, guns, healthcare, ICE, ideals, metaphors, midterms, organizing, rules, taxes, voters, wages

August 24, 2018 By Susan C. Strong

Framing Our Climate March Messages to Persuade: September 2018

On September 8 there will be climate marches all over our planet. The date has been chosen, no doubt, in order to increase pressure on and publicity for The Global Climate Action Summit four days later in San Francisco. Here in California, Mark Baldaserre, CEO of the Public Policy Institute of California, has commented that […]

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Filed Under: American Politics Tagged With: #AmericanPoliticalFraming, #CarbonTax, #ClimateChangeDamage, #ClimateChangeDenial, #ClimateMarch, #PurpleNotRedBlue, bipartisan, framing, organizing

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