A review by bengresik
The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain by George Lakoff

3.0

It would be hard to find another book written during the Bush years that's more relevant now than it probably was then. The fundamental thesis of this book is that Progressives misunderstand how we think and make bad choices because of that. Liberals don't understand that Conservatives think and communicate fundamentally differently. The only problem with this is Lakoff doesn't help us to learn how to communicate our ideas more effectively. He gets part of the way there by pointing to the general frames used in Liberal and Conservative thought but when he goes off to exposit his research near the end of the book he stops applying his material. I think this book is good if you're interested in cognitive science but is less useful for a general audience.