tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049100705786633064.post1596075911620043446..comments2024-01-20T02:06:45.388-08:00Comments on The Political Omnivore: Microaggressions and Brand DamageUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049100705786633064.post-74228814258494306442014-03-28T05:54:21.223-07:002014-03-28T05:54:21.223-07:00Like The Omnivore on Facebook or follow us on Twit...Like The Omnivore on Facebook or follow us on Twitter and you'll get updates when new material comes out!<br /><br />-The OmnivoreAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049100705786633064.post-8199935743576680792014-03-27T09:40:47.207-07:002014-03-27T09:40:47.207-07:00Good points all, Omni, and really enjoyed the vira...Good points all, Omni, and really enjoyed the viral media article. By the way, I wish you had an email list to know when you've got new content up (supposedly how the cool kids build online brands and all that). I've got a post on viral marketing in the queue, pretty economicsy but should be fun.Peterhttp://www.profitsofchaos.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049100705786633064.post-74237760782751745932014-03-27T05:58:57.482-07:002014-03-27T05:58:57.482-07:00Looking at your blog (very interesting) you might ...Looking at your blog (very interesting) you might be interested in this post: Why the Right Doesn't Have a Viral Media Engine: http://politicalomnivore.blogspot.com/2013/12/why-doesnt-right-have-viral-media-engine.html<br /><br />-The OmnivoreAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049100705786633064.post-46149860164065878832014-03-26T09:55:46.318-07:002014-03-26T09:55:46.318-07:00Got that right. Look what happened two years ago w...Got that right. Look what happened two years ago when Mitt Romney got caught on video telling his insufficiently-well-handpicked Boca Raton (natch!) audience of hedge-fund greedbags that 47% of Americans were basically non-taxpaying welfare parasites who would vote for Obama "no matter what".<br /><br />And the message a plurality of Americans received was something like this: "Okay, sure, I'm a heartless private-equity douchebag who's never done an honest day's work in his life and has no contact with or interest in anyone whose income isn't in the top 0.1% - but vote for me anyway because - wait for it! - <em>the other guy is black!</em> Booga booga booga!"<br /><br />The Republicans don't usually underestimate the electorate that badly, but that particular miscalculation was epic. Too bad the alternative turned out to be pretty much the same.<br /><br />-- ΩAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049100705786633064.post-14042490750718124022014-03-26T08:54:43.580-07:002014-03-26T08:54:43.580-07:00Luntz allegedly wants to be on The Newsroom. I'...Luntz allegedly wants to be on The Newsroom. I'd LOVE to see him help write for it! While, yes, people are bamboozled by language, it's also true that sometimes we communicate more clearly than we "mean to." <br /><br />Microaggressions may not meet some people's threshold for "legitimate offense" but telling those for whom they do that the offender should get their vote anyway is a losing battle.<br /><br />-The OmnivoreAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049100705786633064.post-68226485641752350752014-03-26T07:50:30.709-07:002014-03-26T07:50:30.709-07:00The Long-March (through the media swamp) would be ...The Long-March (through the media swamp) would be VERY hard and for an entity like a national party, message discipline is almost impossible. On the other hand, the *reason* message discipline is almost impossible is because there's a pretty big gap between "We -are- a party of minorities" and "Hey, look: Minorities don't vote for us because [ unsavory reasons ]."<br /><br />The media does its part--but there's a real structural issue that exists too: the GOP has, to a degree, written off lower-economic bracket minorities and it shows. The problem is that upper-economic bracket minorities don't like this either.<br /><br />I think blaming the media is the thing-you-do-so-you-don't-have-to-take-responsibility-for-your-situation: It isn't the reason why you just give up. On the other hand, as pointed out, there are other options. Winning minorities isn't *required* to win a national election--you just can't always lose them catastrophically.<br /><br />This position is much easier and, I'd argue, is what the GOP is trying to do--at least some of the time.<br /><br />The problem with big business is that (a) it plays both sides. If you jettison it, the Democratic party will still be happy to Third-Way them and (b) it's not clear what getting out of big business looks like from a policy perspective? Bring back Glass Steagall? Break up a big bank or two? Shut down the Keystone XL Pipeline?<br /><br />Dump major defense contractors?<br /><br />The GOP doesn't have to be ideologically big business, sure--but what policy positions can they take that aren't "friendly" to big business (maybe ... uh ... cap-and-trade?).<br /><br />-The OmnivoreAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049100705786633064.post-78568099965877394002014-03-25T23:04:31.090-07:002014-03-25T23:04:31.090-07:00Very interesting analysis. I don't think it wi...Very interesting analysis. I don't think it will work, though: Millions of people are formally associated with the GOP, you simply cannot control it. The media hunts GOP in a way they don't Biden (on 7/11's) or Reid (on Obama's accent). Pulling a "long march" thru the media to even things up will obviously take awhile.<br /><br />I do agree with Dave, though, that GOP needs to jettison big business in favor of icons like 1-room schoolhouse or volunteering in one's community. Swearing off the money will be hard, but then the internet's all about cheap distribution, and the gains in image may offset the lower ad-spend.Peterhttp://www.profitsofchaos.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049100705786633064.post-74151375909841857352014-03-25T15:09:10.850-07:002014-03-25T15:09:10.850-07:00I dunno, Omnivore. I don't see the GOP as a p...I dunno, Omnivore. I don't see the GOP as a party of "looking out for the little guy" (or even the middle guy for that matter). Everything about the mainstream GOP says "power to the powerful." Not that the same can't be said to a far too significant degree about the DNC. But the DEMs do seem to have a (last half-century) lead of politicians who have demonstrated willingness to balance against the natural hegemony of wealth and power. Don't see that too often from GOP leaders, in spite of the rhetoric.<br /><br />Of course there is the so called Tea Party, which is perhaps much more "middle-class America" minded. But it's a group that has long since lost firm grip on its original libertarian roots; driven too much by religious bigotry, social dictatorship, and us vs them demonization of different viewpoints(i.e. no-compromise).<br /><br />I don't see the surprise in minorities (of color, religion, ethnic group, sexual orientation, etc) falling into the Democrat camp. I guess this article says you don't either, really. Ironically, it isn't really ethnic, religious, gender, orientation bigotry at the heart of the GOP's problem. It's an economic battle - something "The Economist" magazine refers to as 'rent taking'. I've not heard the term before but trying to understand it. Rather than making the pie bigger, keeping wealthy by taking a bigger slice of the pie, even if that involves unfair economic practices. This economic drive results in unintended or even intended bigotries seen from outside the party.<br />Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15512098310504652381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049100705786633064.post-77473303802935948432014-03-25T14:15:13.283-07:002014-03-25T14:15:13.283-07:00And yet the branding books may come to a rough bal...And yet the branding books may come to a rough balance all the same: while the neocons have their Frank Luntz, the progressives have George Lakoff, who's a couple of decades older, if that matters.<br /><br />People are more easily bamboozled by language than they'd like to believe; one thing Drs. Luntz and Lakoff would agree on is the critical importance of framing (or reframing) the debate.<br /><br />-- ΩAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049100705786633064.post-77705629246585655102014-03-20T14:22:53.979-07:002014-03-20T14:22:53.979-07:00Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
-The Omnivore...Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!<br /><br />-The OmnivoreAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8049100705786633064.post-731752907464766562014-03-20T14:20:04.719-07:002014-03-20T14:20:04.719-07:00Very articulate and insightful for a bald guy.Very articulate and insightful for a bald guy.rnsrndhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01296489690483215670noreply@blogger.com