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Book: Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives
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  1. George Lakoff _ Don't Think of an Elephant!

    If you have cancer and you don't have health care, you are not free. You are probably going to suffer and die. If you are in a car accident and suffer multiple injuries and don't have health care, you are not free – you may be disabled for life, or die. Even if you break your leg, do not have access to health care, and cannot get it set, you are not free. You may never walk or run freely again. Ill health enslaves you. Disease enslaves you. Even cataracts that rob your vision and can easily be healed by modern medicine will enslave you to blindness without health care. When states turn down funds for Medicaid, that is a freedom issue – both for people who are being denied health care, and for everyone else to whom a curable disease can spread when health care is denied to a significant number of the people they interact with everyday.
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  2. George Lakoff _ Don't Think of an Elephant!

    Women are human beings and have a right to control their own bodies. When that is denied, they are not free.
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  3. George Lakoff _ Don't Think of an Elephant!

    Discrimination is a denial of freedom.
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  4. George Lakoff _ Don't Think of an Elephant!

    What have been called "women's issues" are freedom issues. Body control. The right of human beings to control their own bodies is a freedom issue. Respect. The right of human beings to be treated institutionally with respect as a human being is a freedom issue.
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  5. George Lakoff _ Don't Think of an Elephant!

    If you believe in the eighteenth century view of the mind, you will look and act wimpy. You will think that all you need to do is give people the facts and the figures and they will reach the right conclusion. You will think that all you need to do is point out where their interests lie, and they will act politically to maximize them. You will believe in polling and focus groups: you will believe that if you ask people what their interests are, they will be aware of them and will tell you, and will vote on it. You will not have any need to appeal to emotion---indeed, to do so would be wrong! You will not have to speak of values; facts and figures will suffice. You will not have to change people's brains; their reason should be enough. You will not have to frame the facts; they will speak for themselves. You just have to get the facts to them...
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  6. George Lakoff _ Don't Think of an Elephant!

    You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.
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