Words We Use and Words We Avoid

This door has a vocabulary, and it is public on purpose. If you are going to carry the argument to somebody else, these are the words it is built out of.

• The words we use are the ones this community already uses: working people, workers, political challengers, incumbents controlled by elites and concentrated money, meritocracy, works for citizens, cannot be co-opted, money in politics, Citizens United, new colonialism, the healthy economy, the rigged layer on top of it, an ethical and clean economy, ideal for workers.
• The words we avoid start with attacks on the voters behind the Republican, Libertarian and Democratic Socialist doors. Their captured incumbents are fair game. Their voters are not.
• Nothing we write compares the parties or assigns a motive to one. The unit of judgement is a person and a vote.
• We never claim a status, an endorsement, a funding source or an outcome we do not have. No promised election result, and no backer we do not actually have.
• Get the mapping right every time: R Republicans, D Democrats, L Libertarians, S Democratic Socialists.

Two audiences never share a page. Copy written for the non-partisan .io, or for another door, does not belong on this one — and if it turns up here, it was pasted in by mistake.

In this area

• Words We Use — The phrases that belong on this door.
• Words We Avoid — The phrases that never appear on this door.

Where this sits

This is one area of We The Citizens D, the Democrat front door at WeCitizensD.com. It is written for Democrat voters, and nothing on the other three doors decides what belongs here.

Source: marketing/messaging/democrats.md §16.0.