Lakoff introduces FrameLab
In this FB post, copied below. The first podcast can be found here.
“By popular demand, it’s the FrameLab Podcast — a podcast about politics, language, and your brain.
In Episode 1, [I] discuss the conservative moral hierarchy and how Republicans really think. And I answer some of the questions you submitted via Facebook and Twitter.
Excerpt:
This is a fight for freedom.
Conservatives want to take the words ‘freedom’ and ‘liberty’ and say that they mean that you’re free to take advantage of anybody else. But that’s not the case. You may be free to walk down the street, but you’re not free to knock down other people and keep them from walking down the street. You are only free to the extent that you do not impose of the freedom of others.
This tax bill is imposing on the freedom of most people in the country. Ninety-nine percent of the people in this country are not going to get any benefits of this tax bill. Over 83% of the $1.5 trillion is going to the top 1%. Where’s it coming from? It’s coming from the bottom 99%.
Ninety-nine percent of the people of this country are paying to increase the freedom of the top 1% and giving up their own freedom. Their freedoms are being taken away from them because their power – through wealth – is going to the top 1%.”