Rhyme? or Reason?
"Click it, or Ticket!"
Damn, but I'm getting tired of seeing that on highway message boards and the back of buses. But, Damn, it works. People remember that insipid little bit of doggerel, and think the nannies are oh-so-clever at telling us bad widdwe childwen to sit up straight.
Why can't we Libertarians get our ideas across? I'll tell you why... Because we don't flippin' know how to rhyme and sloganize. We "reason" - and nobody yields an airborne fornication.
Even while I was writing my last piece on immigration and the Free State Project, I knew it wouldn't work, because I couldn't break it down to 10 words or less and make it rhyme.
"Loose Lips Sink Ships"
"Hell no, we won't go"
"If it doesn't fit, you must acquit"
"Retaliate in '98"
So, let's play their game. Come up with something memorable, that uses rhyming words of less than 6 syllables, and just SINGS "Liberty".
Can someone out there PLEASE help us boil John Galt's speech down to an iambic couplet? Or does "freedom" only rhyme with "orange"?
Very good point. I think one of the catchiest phrases I've heard from Libertarians recently was back during the LP convention in Georgia a few years ago. Aaron Russo started a chant of "All of our freedoms, all of the time."
Might not be quite short enough, but it was catchy enough that it stuck with me.
On another topic, I do enjoy your blog.
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