Promote the General Welfare!

Over at Daily Kos, author Mark Sumner posted an appeal for a “progressive movement that can catch the public eye, without the screaming lunacy of a Glenn Beck or the purposeful lying of an Andrew Breitbart.” In a follow-up comment, “Rumblelizard” noted that “most right-wing policies fit neatly onto a bumper sticker.” Thinking along those lines, I came up with some “bumper sticker messages” which seemed to me to present Progressive ideas in ways that caught the eye without screaming or lying:

My Body, My Choice Concerning reproductive rights, and end of life rights
No Wars, No Deficits! For war-lovers suddenly scared of deficits
What Are the Wars For Now? Anti-wars-of-choice
How Did Tax Cuts Help? For the "tax cuts forever" crowd
Luke 6:31 [the “do to others as you would have them do to you” verse]
Regarding unemployment benefits and Medicaid
Earth Is What You Make It Polluted, hotter
No Establishment of Religion Including Christianity
Marriage is a Private Affair Including for homosexuals
Progressivism: Mutually Assured Survival The core idea of Progressivism

Perhaps slogans like these could be used in blog posts, and even as titles for blog posts, like above. Good ones might go viral that way!

Of course, slogans like these could also catch the public eye by means of actual bumperstickers. You can learn how to make bumperstickers here and here.

I don’t believe the majority of Americans want to live 236 years in the past. We have to figure out how to best survive in the present. The world of the Tea Party no longer exists. It is naive and dangerous to presume we can go back there.