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Akelous wrote a new diary post: Digesting Lakoff
I am digesting George Lakoff. I have for years worried, strained, and complained because noone seemed to be working on the rhetoric of progressive politics or preparing a coordinated response to the right wing’s dominance over the political discussion in the last 30 years. In The Polictical Mind and Don’t Think Of An Elephant George Lakoff analyzes [...]
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Akelous commented on the blog post Liveblog: Wisconsin Recall
This is a painful outcome. I guess “the people united will never be defeated” is not as true as I want it to be. I’ve just been reading George Lakoff’s Don’t Think Of An Elephant. I like his proposition that progressives must start a long term project to reframe the discussion. People vote for what they understand and the Right has been organizing it’s presentation of ideas for forty years. It seems to me that just having truth on our side and motivating the voters is not enough.
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Akelous became a registered member
