I think it just might work
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> This is your brain on politics. Any questions?
> By Swopa
> Jul 12 2007 - 2:46pm
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> From the Los Angeles Times on Monday:
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-guru9jul09,1,4614069.story?coll=la-politics-campaign&ctrack=5&cset=true> Drew Westen, a genial 48-year-old psychologist and brain researcher, was talking to a rapt liberal audience about the role of emotion in politics, how to talk back aggressively to Republicans, and why going negative is not to be feared.
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> . . . Example: When President Bush recently refused to allow Karl Rove to testify under oath about his role in the sacking of federal prosecutors, Westen said, Democrats blundered. Instead of insisting Rove testify under oath, they simply should have said (over and over), "Mr. Bush, just what is it about 'So help me God' that you find so offensive?"
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The only real solution, in the long term, is to rewire voters' subconscious associations so they stop linking the GOP strong-daddy pose with morality and common sense -- and, as a result, stop electing the crooks who wind up deserving to be ousted or imprisoned. In that sense, Nancy Pelosi or John Edwards or Howard Dean saying, "This is an issue of right and wrong, and
just doesn't get it," is more damning than any legal indictment or bill of impeachment.
Of course, leave it to Democrats to need a brain researcher with a Ph.D. to explain this to them. Without the references to neural circuits and the amygdala, they wouldn't buy it.
(Cross-posted at Firedoglake.)