(12-19-2021, 09:51 PM)Hunter Wrote: (12-19-2021, 09:41 PM)Humans Being Wrote: (12-19-2021, 02:46 AM)Hunter Wrote: (12-19-2021, 01:40 AM)Humans Being Wrote: When does madness take over for reason?
idk, those are questions left to higher authorities...
"Let's go, Brandon!"
Variations in Content include Traditional referents
Pars pro toto – the part stands for the whole – meta data – example: ‘doh’ references Homer Simpson – that simple reference somes up everything known about the character. Using that simple formula is a trigger action in our minds referencing the greater whole.
Or this use of synecdoche in politics…
President Trump’s tweets calling on four Democratic congresswomen of color to “go back” to the “corrupt” countries they came from sparked the controversy he undoubtedly wanted, as did his subsequent attack on one, Representative Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota.
The chant “Send her back,” a variation on the 2016 Trump supporters’ chant about Hillary Clinton, “Lock her up,” resounded through a recent political rally.
These slights reveal Trump’s fondness for a rhetorical device called synecdoche.
https://communication-breakdown.com/2021...n-content/
"I love the poorly educated"
Understanding the Presidency as a brand!
https://communication-breakdown.com/mybb...as-a-brand
Presidential candidates are themselves synecdoche. They represent their whole (monad) party. If they’re popular enough, they create what’s called a “coattail effect.” People vote for the entire party because of one person, its leader. The reverse can be true as well:
Presidential candidates are themselves synecdoche. They represent their whole party. If they’re popular enough, they create what’s called a “coattail effect.” People vote for the entire party because of one person, its leader. The reverse can be true as well: A poor candidate, like Republican Barry Goldwater in 1964, can drag down the entire party.
In 2018, Democrats sought to attach the president to every single Republican in a swing district, while Republicans demonized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as a way to tarnish all Democrats.
Trump’s tweets twist the usual strategy by aiming his synecdoche at House members. This is rare for a president.
One prior example is Franklin Roosevelt’s 1940 reelection campaign. Seeking an unprecedented third term as war raged in Europe and Asia, Roosevelt, a Democrat, faced a formidable opponent in businessman Wendell Willkie.
New to electoral politics and an outsider, Willkie exuded charisma. He criticized Roosevelt’s economic record, but shared his concern for national defense. Unlike many Republicans of the era, Willkie was no isolationist.
Roosevelt did not want to attack Willkie; the president admired the Republican liberal. Instead, he found his Republican foils in the the crusty old House minority leader, Joseph Martin; in Bruce Barton, an advertising executive turned politician; and in Hamilton Fish III, a strident, conservative isolationist.
“Martin, Barton and Fish” – the chant became a staple at FDR’s campaign rallies, as he detailed their opposition to every New Deal reform and national defense measure. When FDR got away with that synecdoche, Willkie later said, “I knew I was licked.”
https://theconversation.com/the-rhetoric...ote-120565