Dear DUers: "Don't Think of an Elephant!"

[StClone]

For $10 George Lakoff walks you through the Sociological mind control experiment that the Right has inflicted on susceptible Americans.

It's a scary world where patriarchal figures know best always, infallibly and without consequence. And for those that do fail it is a moral and Darwinian failure that you deserve.

Where familiar words are used to "frame" ideas and proposals that one would shun if they weren't ensconced in familiar and comfortable vocabulary.

Where billions have been spent from the ground up to remake the political landscape since the 60's. Ideas Progressives find foreign and detached, Cons have found connect ever increasingly with Americans.

An Lakoff offers us a way back...

A must read kiddos! Easy, short, inexpensive...a must heed!

[FormerDittoHead]

1. ...and then join us in the DU Framing group!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=252

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2. The problem that

I have with the concept is that the words represent ideas. Ideas to us, and different ideas to them. Where 'values' may mean sexual morals to them, and social justice to us, it won't matter what they are called. They, like we, will vote for the ideas, not the words.

But, hey, what do we have to lose?