How many of you haven’t seen the aarp=anti-soldier, pro-gay marriage image? It’s being roundly trashed in my echo chamber, and in the first couple of hits on google, gotta wonder if anyone’s buying it. But I’ve been continually surprised by what doesn’t rebound on propagandists. I thought that ridiculous “latte-drinking” ad would have been a loser, but apparently not.
I’d like to see something similar as a simple graphical display of progressive values. And to be honest, it wouldn’t hurt to trash the regressives either. It’s all well and good to have the moral high ground, but turning the other cheek is not effective political strategy.
A few image ideas, on the pro-side: a black kid in a racially mixed classroom raising her hand, a latino doctor taking care of a chinese kid both smiling, a bustling commercial street mid day, some sweeping *pristine* natural vista, a graduation shot, a family sitting down together for dinner.
And on the anti-side: one abu ghraib image, a disabled person begging in the street, an injured/disabled soldier, a black cloud of smoke coming out of a car’s tailpipe, a congested highway, an elderly individual being evicted, some graphical depiction of excessive imprisonment, pink slips (fired/layed off), some old white guy behind a desk with stacks of money.
Obviously it needs some editing. There’s more than one way to frame some of it (old guy behind desk with stacks of money clearly points to a success of the revamping of SS, right?).
I’d suggest that instead of a pink slip, depict someone being escorted from the building by security. That shows people getting laid off, _and_ has all sorts of other ancillary associations that it might trip in the audience…
Okay, I think I just scared myself that I came up with that…