Just a thought experiment, but here is an ad campaign straight from the Republican play book.
Remember the Harry and Louise anti-health care reform ads?
How about a series of ads that take an "average Joe" who is quoting the standard Bill O'Reilly lie, or other meme that is destroying our country, and the people around them set them straight.
Examples below the fold.
The latest party line about not being able to stop Chinese imports for example.
A blue collier stereotype, a construction crew in a bar, for example.
Tape on the TV of someone repeating that we don't have the power to do anything about Chinese imports, becuase that would start a trade war, and trade wars are bad.
Other members of his crew list the things China has done to restrict our access. Also the damage that the low wages are doing to jobs.
Continue with somebody reminding im of all their buddies that can't find work any more, and tie them into free trade as the cause. End the ad with a tag line that ties up that what is good for Republicans is good for business, but bad for America.
Othe ads could feature Moms picking up there kids at day care, talking about the bomming economy, and all the other mothers reminding them that the middle class is dying and only the wealthy are gaining. (wages, taxes, rising prices, etc.)
Taxes: Offices workers in the break room or at the water cooler. Look what all those tax cuts a few years ago did. "yeah, how much of a tax cut did you get? "Not much, but that was just me, everybody else got one, right?" "NO"
People list the Bridges falling down, Cops that can't responds to take crime reports, because that are not enough to do the job, Meat inspectors, and bad meat, and other examples of where there is no money for things that need to be done, becuase we gave it all away to the wealthy.
The boss walks up. Even with his salary, he got screwed too.
End with someone who's cousin is a customs inspector at a local port, and ho little money or staff there is to keep terrorist materials out of the country.
Guys playing pickup basketball. Someone repeats the line that if we leave Iraq, we lose the war on terror.
Everyone unanimously shouts, "There are no terrorists in Iraq!" Repeat the costs of the war. The war profiteering, the number of live s lost, ours and theirs. Then remind the speaker about the Afghanistan, Pakistan, and who the real enemies are.
In each case the clear point would be people who defiantly lose on each lie from the Republican spin machine. In each case they repeat those lies as shining examples of what the Rebublicans have done to help us.
In each case, the people around him. from the same economic and social group remind him, (or her) why that is a lie, and the truth about how that very lie damages him personally and the country overall.
Each response must be crystal clear about why that lie is a lie, and what damage it allows. They must be well stated simple and unmistakable.
In each case call the lie a lie.
Harry and Louise worked, becuase people thought they could identify with the characters. These ads would work, if people felt they could identify with these characters, and make the connection between the lies and the the real effects on their lives and their futures.
As I say, unless these ideas could reach someone that could actually produce and display these ads, they are just my thought experiment, but I think that they are what we need to stop the lies.
Peace
Mr Tek.