Excellent! I’m sure you’ve come across Timothy Snyder’s (and others’)framing of freedom, from “freedom from” to “the freedom to.” Which I think Harris has been doing. The bully is such a good frame: the bully seeks freedom from regulation and accountability. The regular person seeks freedom to live their life as they wish, which is achieved by protecting them from bullies (which Harris pointed out in her Ellipse speech) and by constantly investing in human capital with things like education, health care, and financial stability.
It's always better to describe the positive vision if you can! Let me try it: "Freedom from gun violence" >> "Freedom to live in safe neighborhoods." Yup! Much better!
I also find it productive to reframe their "freedom" as "license" as in "a permission slip from the state to be excused from the consequences of your actions" Much of what they claim to be freedom has to do with the "freedom to" make money from their property and practice their religion. I would reframe that as license as in "permission to exploit" and "a free pass to discriminate."
This is a brilliant distillation that we have needed for so long. Thank you, Antonia Scatton, for incredibly useful framing of the whole case against MAGA!
Excellent summary! Thank you!
Excellent! I’m sure you’ve come across Timothy Snyder’s (and others’)framing of freedom, from “freedom from” to “the freedom to.” Which I think Harris has been doing. The bully is such a good frame: the bully seeks freedom from regulation and accountability. The regular person seeks freedom to live their life as they wish, which is achieved by protecting them from bullies (which Harris pointed out in her Ellipse speech) and by constantly investing in human capital with things like education, health care, and financial stability.
It's always better to describe the positive vision if you can! Let me try it: "Freedom from gun violence" >> "Freedom to live in safe neighborhoods." Yup! Much better!
I also find it productive to reframe their "freedom" as "license" as in "a permission slip from the state to be excused from the consequences of your actions" Much of what they claim to be freedom has to do with the "freedom to" make money from their property and practice their religion. I would reframe that as license as in "permission to exploit" and "a free pass to discriminate."
That "Convince-Yourself-To-Vote" GOTV effort in NC is a good one! Their technique appears to be Motivational Interviewing: https://medium.com/progressively-speaking/a-quick-and-easy-way-to-facilitate-political-opinion-change-220c03587cd8
This is a brilliant distillation that we have needed for so long. Thank you, Antonia Scatton, for incredibly useful framing of the whole case against MAGA!
Love this! Thanks for writing and sharing.