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Democracy, Protests, OWS, and the Tea Party

I was reading a recent article by Phil Kerpen entitled ‘Occupy’ Movement Is Not What Democracy Looks Like. In the article Mr. Kerpen makes two major points. One is that democracy means free elections and culminates in representative democracy; the other is that the OWS movement is undemocratic, that it is about …

George Lakoff, Moral Politics, and Work

In his book Moral Politics, George Lakoff presents a short description of Work as viewed from the conservative and the liberal frames of reference. His description reads like a manifesto comparing the Tea Party with OWS. In the book he describes the conservative view of work as Work Reward metaphor as …