The late Fred Thompson, on Law & Order, had a scene that summed up a fundamental weakness of "conservatives."

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8. It's an easy rut to fall into.

We on the other end of the political spectrum have our own tired clichés that we use incessantly as if being left-of-center required the daily use of one or more in order to be authorized to keep breathing oxygen:

Corporate/corporatist, oligarch, tax the rich, conservative (Republicanese definition, not the English one), the game is rigged, billionaires, etc.

I think dead horses get kicked less often. Lack of imagination is not the exclusive domain of the extreme right, even if they are light years ahead of us in the field. But some of us use “the billionaires” like they use “the liberals,” and the ambition to get more creative seems be lacking in both camps.