Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives
by:
George Lakoff (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781417665891 (1417665890)
Publish date: September 1st 2004
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Pages no: 124
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
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Literature,
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Psychology,
Political Science,
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Activism
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...
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