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This Family, America

October 16, 2011 | Filed under: Commentary and tagged with: conservatives, George Lakoff, liberals, nurturant parent, strict father

I confess I haven’t gotten around to reading the book, but I was interested in one things in the wiki page review of George Lakoff’s book Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think. The review notes conservatives understanding of the Country is a Family metaphor. It got me to thinking, what if we understood the country as a family like Michelle Bachmann’s, a large, sprawling family with 5 children of her own and 23 foster children. Would we need to be conservative (the “strict father” mode), to keep order in such a sprawling family; or liberal (the “nurturant parent” mode), to provide support for such a large, diverse set of individuals.

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