From George Lakoff:

[elleng]

Behind every progressive policy lies a single moral value: empathy, together with the responsibility and strength to act on that empathy. Never forget "strength and responsibility," because there is no true empathy without them.

[Kid Berwyn]

1. Making life better for others.

Service.

[summer_in_TX]

2. Empathy, responsibility to the greater good.

Strength to act.


Wish more of our Dems and their campaign people would base their campaigns on Lakoff's teachings. Biden did. He internalizes value-based campaigning. He was amazing at articulating the values of democracy, of a free and open society, of the rule of law and freedom of the press.

Too many of our Dems confuse a plethora of good programs with putting our values front and center.

[Skittles]

3. I don't have to experience something to undertand that someone else needs something

THAT makes me a liberal

[SergeStorms]

4. Apparently two things...

Manchin and Sinema lack. Why are they Democrats again? Someone please remind me.

[Gaugamela]

5. And behind every conservative principle is exclusivity. The desire to feel separate and superior.

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That’s why they embrace xenophobia and nationalism, classism and racism and misogyny. It preserves their privilege and their wealth, and cloaks their abject lack of imagination.

[Duppers]

7. Excellent observation.

And very well said.

TY.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

6. Doesn't Climate Change Action change the equation?

It's more than empathy. It's survival of civil society.

[Duppers]

8. K & R