Like most conservatives, I adore the fable of the Ant & the Grasshopper. Winter comes and the hardworking ant is prepared while the lazy grasshopper suffers. The message is so clear, pure, and strong; and so commonly known, well, it's a wonder that conservatives ever lose elections!
Say, do think its time we figured out why this perfect message is not helping? Polls show US voters do not like liberals... they just vote for them. Ouch. With this in mind... please allow me to suggest how the A&G fable fails us.
First, the whole thing is clearly an agenda piece, so many will ignore it altogether while others will not trust it. Note to conservatives: in general, agenda pieces work only INSIDE our echo chamber - so we will not collect many new votes!
Next, the ant is supposedly a christian, and "there he goes again" judging and probably withholding. What a hypocrite, love your neighbor... as long as they follow your rules.
This may be most important: The ant-way is to work hard & tally & horde. The grasshopper would comment (if he were not so kindhearted & free spirited) that seriously, if you have to ask your accountant if you are having a good time -- then you are not having a good time! Ant's never have a good time and they never really "live" at all, not compared to the "live in the now" grasshopper!
By the way, every ant and every grasshopper will eventually be desperate and will eventually die... but at least the Grasshopper would not give you a lecture, and he would share what he had in the unlikely event he had accumulated enough to share.
The LOGIC of the fable is conservative, but the IMPRESSION of the fable is liberal.
So, my good conservative compatriots... won't you please be a dear and connect the dots? Let's craft our messages for the public to BEGIN with the IMPRESSION, and leave the logic of it all for later.
What say you?
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Say, do think its time we figured out why this perfect message is not helping? Polls show US voters do not like liberals... they just vote for them. Ouch. With this in mind... please allow me to suggest how the A&G fable fails us.
First, the whole thing is clearly an agenda piece, so many will ignore it altogether while others will not trust it. Note to conservatives: in general, agenda pieces work only INSIDE our echo chamber - so we will not collect many new votes!
Next, the ant is supposedly a christian, and "there he goes again" judging and probably withholding. What a hypocrite, love your neighbor... as long as they follow your rules.
This may be most important: The ant-way is to work hard & tally & horde. The grasshopper would comment (if he were not so kindhearted & free spirited) that seriously, if you have to ask your accountant if you are having a good time -- then you are not having a good time! Ant's never have a good time and they never really "live" at all, not compared to the "live in the now" grasshopper!
By the way, every ant and every grasshopper will eventually be desperate and will eventually die... but at least the Grasshopper would not give you a lecture, and he would share what he had in the unlikely event he had accumulated enough to share.
The LOGIC of the fable is conservative, but the IMPRESSION of the fable is liberal.
So, my good conservative compatriots... won't you please be a dear and connect the dots? Let's craft our messages for the public to BEGIN with the IMPRESSION, and leave the logic of it all for later.
What say you?
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