With the recent Limbaugh news, has anyone seen "The Brainwashing of my Dad"?

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11. Maybe they need better writers.

I agree there's a certain mentality that won't listen to anything that contradicts their worldview, but I still think we dropped the ball on framing the issues. George Lakoff nailed the problem in his book, "Moral Politics," that the dems assume people vote based on facts and intellect, and the repubs know that a lot of people vote based on emotion, or the lizard brain, like you said. We need to appeal to both, but instead, we think it's good enough to say, "Go to our platform page and read what we stand for," while the repubs plaster the media with catchy phrases that frequently are the exact opposite of what their policies actually do, but people swallow it.

In the end, people need to sharpen up. There's a reason why the repubs started filling positions on Boards of Education across the land back in the 1980s.

"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing."
~Karl Rove