This is a very interesting way to look at debating the left. Just rephrase their nonsense and it will likely shut them the hell up.
Rebooting the Debate
The defining moment, and how to own it.
By Michael D. Harbison
A former college roommate once gave me a very succinct piece of wisdom, passed on from his father, when he viewed me engaging in an ideological debate. The advice? “Never argue with a pig. It will waste your time, and it will just annoy the pig.”
I am now observing how conservatives willingly cede the defining moments of a debate by accepting, and even parroting, the terminology of the Left. As long as we continue to let the left frame the argument, the picture we attempt to paint will not matter. When the debate is defined by their vernacular (global warming, gun control, health care, and all the rest), we sustain an uphill battle in our quest to have our views understood. Our words should define our beliefs inasmuch as the Liberal terminology defines the beliefs of the Left.
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