Don't Think of an Elephant : Know Your Values and Frame the Debate
by:
George Lakoff (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781920769451 (1920769455)
Publish date: 2005
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Pages no: 144
Edition language: English
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I learned about this book via Eric Garland on Twitter. He is a strategic forecaster, per his bio, and I learn a lot from his tweets. I find this book fascinating and essential reading for those of us more on the Left politically. George Lakoff lays out nicely the Conservative strategy and how ...
The question this book poses is a very good one. In the US, Democrats and Republicans disagree on almost everything. Why is that?Lakoff's answer is that it all goes back to different ways of thinking about the concept of the family. Republicans assume that people are fundamentally bad. They think in...