How did American politics degenerate into the two opposing world views battling for control today?
http://www.thenation.com/audio/167341/rick-perlstein-republicans-crazy-democrats-stupid
Rick Perlstein: Republicans, Crazy; Democrats, Stupid | The Nation
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Living on Earth: Conservatives and Climate Change
Polls show many of Mitt Romney supporters don’t see climate change as a real problem, but a former Republican congressman believes that conservatives should take the lead on the issue. Bob Inglis, a former representative from South Carolina argues a free enterprise solution is the answer to climate disruption.
http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=12-P13-00039&segmentID=2
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The Brain’s Politics: How Campaigns Are Framed and Why - George Lakoff - MIT Comparative Media Studies Podcast
Everything we learn, know and understand is physical — a matter of brain circuitry. This basic fact has deep implications for how politics is understood, how campaigns are framed, why conservatives and progressives talk past each other, and why progressives have more problems framing messages than conservatives do — and what they can do about it.
George Lakoff is Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught since 1972. He previously taught at Harvard (1965-69) and the University of Michigan (1969-1972).
He graduated from MIT in 1962 (in Mathematics and Literature) and received his PhD in Linguistics from Indiana University in 1966.
http://cms.mit.edu/news/2012/09/podcast_george_lakoff_the_brai.php
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Point of Inquiry — George Lakoff
George Lakoff is a cognitive linguist at the University of California at Berkeley. But unlike many of his scientific peers, he’s known as much for his work on politics as for his research.
Lakoff the famed author of many books on why the left and right disagree about politics, including Moral Politics, Don’t Think of an Elephant, Thinking Points, and most recently, The Political Mind: Why You Can’t Understand 21st Century Politics with an 18th Century Brain.
Throughout these works Lakoff has applied cognitive and linguistic analysis to our political rifts, and his ideas about "framing," "metaphor," and the different moral systems of liberals and conservatives have become very widely known and influential.