It seems to me that the most time-effective way to create change is to create a memorable slogan--what I call,
bumper-sticker rhetoric. Examples:
- Mend it; don't end it (welfare.)
- Civil rights. (rather than, for example, taxpayer cash and human redistribution of resources based on race and gender.)
- Go green. (rather than impose great costs for highly uncertain benefit.)
- What would Jesus do?
- Glenn Beck (and Joe Wilson and any outspoken conservative) is "a nut job" or "wing nut."
- Got milk?
- Perhaps most potent: Change. (That helped get Obama elected despite his being inexperienced and a hard leftist.)
With that as a model, I've created these:
- What are you worth? Score every hour of the last day or week (or longer) from -100 (a drug dealer) to +100 (trying to cure cancer). What's your average score?
- One-minute taxation. Enter your gross income and assets at irs.gov. Your total annual tax is deducted from your checking account. All other taxation (sales, tolls, state income, etc.) are eliminated.
- There are four widows for every widower. Fund men's health.
- Reverse discrimination means worse products and services for everyone.
- Is it cost-effective to try to cool the planet? Demand debate.
- K-16 on YouTube--so all students can always have America's best teachers.
For any of these, I'd welcome a more pithy version, a critique of its underlying proposal, or your suggestion of something you'd like to see on a million bumper stickers.
It seems to me that the most time-effective way to create change is to create a memorable slogan--what I call, bumper-sticker rhetoric. Examples:
