Reply #8: I don't think Lakoff EVER suggested it's all PR

[ulTRAX]

I don't think Lakoff EVER suggested it's all PR. It's just that PR (ie reframing) is important. What I'm most concerned about is some simple-minded attempt to reframe what I consider the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of the Democratic Party.

I'm politically Progressive because it is a logical extension of deeply held core values... values I don't see in the Democratic Party. Why? I think the dynamics of our ever-corrupting, dysfunctional two party system have drained away all the passion from most Democrats and has created a Party that would prefer to game an anti-democratic and dysfunctional system than ever revisit questions such as what constitutes morally legitimate government... or what is the moral basis for taxation. Hell... the Dems can't even deal with the fact that they pretend they value democracy when they support our anti-democratic federal system!

We need to find those values we're passionate about.... THEN try to sell them.