Strength Through Joy?

So not content with recycling the fruity, vaguely disturbing corporate realist propaganda posters from the 1940s, the Bush Administration has gone slogan crazy recently. Hey, it worked for those guys in Italy and Germany, so why not in the good old US of A?

Among the choicest motto morsels endlessly recycled are:
Protecting the Homeland
Strengthening Our Economy
Working Toward Independence
And so on…

Yet the practice, which involves more frequent and smaller logos placed close to the president’s head to ensure a spot on television, has begun to draw criticism – especially on days when the message looks more like wishful thinking than a description of real events. One Democratic critic called the bombardment of simple slogans “eerie”.

Sour grapes from a politicians who wishes the Dems were ahead in the motto war? Or is the ongoing sloganification of public discourse something to worry about?

Slogans macht frei?