Our Master Narrative

Bob Sommerby and Paul Krugman are right. We (and by "we" I mean the left-leaning members of the punditocracy, of which I am not a member) need to take a page from the right and create a few Master Narratives with which to fend off the opposition. Just as the Right are so quick to sigh, "just more liberal bias" and "these liberal elites have no respect for the values of regular Americans," "we" need to point back and say, "you think 'regular Americans' are fools and don't deserve a real debate on important issues." So, for instance, when a group says that AARP is opposed to killing Social Security because they hate the troops and love fags, said pundits should roll their eyes on camera, shake their talking heads, and repeat, "There they go again. They do this shit all of the time, making a joke instead of an argument."