Let's call ourselves The New Center

[Sea A Chell]

I mentioned this idea in reply to another post, but this has been on my mind for years. I think we should avoid calling ourselves "the Left" or "Liberals." The other side has done its best to sour the public. When our ideas are mentioned outside the context of the right's word framing, people like it...like the guy who wanted the "Affordable Care Act" but not the Right wing term "Obamacare." Our policies are preferred by the majority of Americans. That means WE are the New Center! The other guys are standing on the right field foul line and see those in Center Field (us) as "the Left." But of course everything is to their left. Let's reclaim the language about increasing the minimum wage as the New Center, etc.

[ck4829]

1. Yeah, I'm not going to appeal to people who throw temper tantrums when they hear the word 'liberals'

I'm exiting politics before I'm doing any more of this rinse and repeat of just being about cleaning up Republican messes and getting blamed when Republicans stop the attempts to clean it up.

[peregrinus]

2. There is no more Republican party

We need to call it the Trump party. That’s what it is and it stands for greed and corruption, that’s it’s only platform.

[jimfields33]

3. Trump would love that. His head would expand to

new heights.