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Moral Politics : How Liberals and Conservatives Think George Lakoff
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press

Krugman P (December 9, 2010) Block that metaphor. Liberal politicians underestimate the strength of support for liberal policies, even when that support is 80% or better: and conservatives, by a much larger margin, over-estimate conservative strength in their districts and in the polity at large. Further, we tested whether participants were aware of the metaphor. Conservatives of this stripe, which Larry Arnhart (2010) associates as metaphysical conservatism, in contrast to evolutionary conservatives believe that morality is impossible without divine intervention and this is apparently one . This is Haidt's startling message to the left: When it comes to morality, conservatives are more broad-minded than liberals. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. They serve a more The usual argument of these psycho-pundits is that conservative politicians manipulate voters' neural roots — playing on our craving for authority, for example — to trick people into voting against their interests. Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Second Edition [MORAL POLITICS 2/E]. Lakoff G (2002) Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think. These findings suggest that metaphors can influence not just what solution comes to mind first, but also which solution people think is best, even when given the opportunity to explicitly compare alternatives. KIRK, J (2006) 'Marking the moral boundaries of class.' Sociological Research Online 11, . Liberals and progressives, who fear a rightward trend in Supreme Court decisions and U.S. But Haidt treats Conservatism thrives because it fits how people think, and that's what validates it. A conservative social morality would morally sanction people who decided not Politically, then, the ethic that libertarians stress is simply lack of aggression: let people do as they please until they begin violating one another's rights. LAKOFF, G (2002) Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think. In that spirit we should perhaps not be surprised at left-wing frustration over the long-vaunted, rarely-seen 'moral' (read reactionary) majority that drives so much of our national discourse on social policy issues. We found that very few participants .. Socially, however, there is room for spontaneous order. The more I mature … chronologically, emotionally and spiritually … the more I find my thinking and my actions moving toward the center. Specifically, I think we have reason to believe that libertarian political commitments require a liberal social morality rather than a conservative or progressive one.