Interesting stuff Menehune - thanks for the link
“Political commentator Joshua Treviño has postulated that the six degrees of acceptance of public ideas are roughly:[6]
Unthinkable
Radical
Acceptable
Sensible
Popular
Policy
“The Overton window is an approach to identifying the ideas that define the spectrum of acceptability of governmental policies. It says politicians can act only within the acceptable range. Shifting the Overton window involves proponents of policies outside the window persuading the public to expand the window. Proponents of current policies, or similar ones within the window, seek to convince people that policies outside it should be deemed unacceptable. According to Lehman, who coined the term, “The most common misconception is that lawmakers themselves are in the business of shifting the Overton window. That is absolutely false. Lawmakers are actually in the business of detecting where the window is, and then moving to be in accordance with it.”
Interesting stuff Menehune - thanks for the linkyy. Also helps explain how woke activists are able to change the culture so quickly
“Political commentator Joshua Treviño has postulated that the six degrees of acceptance of public ideas are roughly:[6]
Unthinkable
Radical
Acceptable
Sensible
Popular
Policy
“The Overton window is an approach to identifying the ideas that define the spectrum of acceptability of governmental policies. It says politicians can act only within the acceptable range. Shifting the Overton window involves proponents of policies outside the window persuading the public to expand the window. Proponents of current policies, or similar ones within the window, seek to convince people that policies outside it should be deemed unacceptable. According to Lehman, who coined the term, “The most common misconception is that lawmakers themselves are in the business of shifting the Overton window. That is absolutely false. Lawmakers are actually in the business of detecting where the window is, and then moving to be in accordance with it.”