In order to defeat Statist movements, Tea Party members must learn how to defeat the ideas that are the motors of their movements. Statists seek to eradicate Individual Rights and use government force to enslave medical professions, enslave patients, and redistribute wealth to achieve the "equality" of all. The Tea Party must be able to clearly and compellingly convince the public that the Statist ideas of "equality," "compassion," and "redistribution by force" are morally evil to be convincing. Can you be persuasive with your friends and family in refuting these ideas?
To start to learn how to do this, I recommend that you read Dr. Harry Binswanger's 6/28/2012 Op Ed in Forbes Online at:
www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/06/28...rn-how-to-use-words/
Forbes put a long confusing title on this article which should have been titled "It's the Concepts, Stupid."
A short excerpt from the Op Ed:
' . . . since words *are* the tools of language, they are the tools of thought. That means you must resist unto death using the terminology of your enemy. The side that controls language controls thought.'
' Words matter because words stand for concepts–abstract ideas that join certain things and separate others. Your ideological enemy is your ideological enemy in part because he divides the world up differently from you. He works with different concepts, different classifications. Where you see the opposition of freedom vs. government force, he sees the opposition of “exploitation” vs. “equality.” Where you see earning vs. freeloading, he sees “luck” vs. “compassion.”
' Even little, innocuous concepts are game-changers. Take “access.” Is there some national, collective problem in the fact that some people don’t have “access” to quality medical care? What if we rephrase the question to be: do some people have the right to force other people to pay for their medical care? Sounds a little different, doesn’t it? I don’t have “access” to your car, your home, and your bank account. That’s a disgrace! '
To start to learn how to do this, I recommend that you read Dr. Harry Binswanger's 6/28/2012 Op Ed in Forbes Online at:
www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/06/28...rn-how-to-use-words/
Forbes put a long confusing title on this article which should have been titled "It's the Concepts, Stupid."
A short excerpt from the Op Ed:
' . . . since words *are* the tools of language, they are the tools of thought. That means you must resist unto death using the terminology of your enemy. The side that controls language controls thought.'
' Words matter because words stand for concepts–abstract ideas that join certain things and separate others. Your ideological enemy is your ideological enemy in part because he divides the world up differently from you. He works with different concepts, different classifications. Where you see the opposition of freedom vs. government force, he sees the opposition of “exploitation” vs. “equality.” Where you see earning vs. freeloading, he sees “luck” vs. “compassion.”
' Even little, innocuous concepts are game-changers. Take “access.” Is there some national, collective problem in the fact that some people don’t have “access” to quality medical care? What if we rephrase the question to be: do some people have the right to force other people to pay for their medical care? Sounds a little different, doesn’t it? I don’t have “access” to your car, your home, and your bank account. That’s a disgrace! '
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