Lakoff & Obama: The Country We Believe In

George Lakoff suggests that Obama’s April 13, 2011 speech provides a solid guide for how to talk about progressive issues:

“Last week, on April 13, 2011, President Obama gave all Democrats and all progressives a remarkable gift. Most of them barely noticed. They looked at the President’s speech as if it were only about budgetary details. But the speech went well beyond the budget. It went to the heart of progressive thought and the nature of American democracy, and it gave all progressives a model of how to think and talk about every issue.”

I’ve recently been working through George Lakoff’s “Moral Politics” and am persuaded that his research is vital to the future of rational politics.

Take the time to watch the speech, and then let’s discuss in more detail.