Reply #17: Thanks to both you and "freeplessinseattle" (Ha!) for responding to my

[checks-n-balances]

question and not to the people who, in effect, hijacked this thread.

Here are two of the things I've gleaned so far from what I've heard about the two books:

1. According to Frank, people from "the Heartland" (i.e., Kansas and other "red states") have been voting (irrationally?) against their own economic interests, and perhaps other interests

and

2. According to Lakoff, they will continue to do so unless we stop letting the GOP/Rove frame the issues for us by reframing them ourselves.

IMO, Rove & Co. reframed the whole election by convincing most of the media that they "won" because of the "Moral Values" issue. In a way, this is bolstered a little by Frank's argument. However, I have seen him briefly on CSpan and he is NOT a neocon or a Repub.

Anyway, should I have started this thread in another forum? Is there one for book discussions?