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RubyDuby in GA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-29-07 02:13 PM
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26. Left, right, and center, are
terms politicos like to use that don't refer in any way to how the real world works. Use of these terms actually hurt progressives. It is a metophorical terms, a mental frame that controls how you think, when you use the term. "Left," "center," "right," "common ground," "out there," "lunatic fringe," "extremist," etc. indicate points on a finite line on the political spectrum. Glen W. Smith has done some excellent work for the Rockridge Institute," and I'm reading Smith's "the Politics of Deceit." He wrote one of my favorite articles from the past year: Summers of Love http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/research/rockridge/summers-of-love

Instead of speaking in terms of "left," "center," or "right," I prefer the idea of biconceptualism, in which the world is made up of progressives, conservatives, partial progressives, and partial conservatives: http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/research/lakoff/no-center-no-centrists
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