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thenewgreen  ·  4595 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Term We are Going to Hear Ad Nauseum Until Nov 6 2012 - Class Warfare
We'll see. It's being bantered about pretty fervently right now. One thing they are really good at is keeping a word, phrase or concept in circulation by quasi-denying it. "I'm not sure that I'd call them death panels, that may be too much but government mandated conversations with a panel...." -This way the phrase stays in the popular consciousness. We'll see if they take this route with "class warfare".




mk  ·  4595 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Sure, but death panels has the quality that they might affect your grandma. Class warfare doesn't sound like something that's going to come into your own home.
thenewgreen  ·  4595 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I don't know, if you're grandma recalls things like the "race riots" of the sixties or.... the recent riots in London etc, she may feel that it could reach her front door. It's a well thought out phrase designed to fear based on past/current events imo.