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How to Make Friends and Manipulate Irrational Voters

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Uploaded by on Jun 3, 2008

Are Americans irrational when it comes to politics -- voting against their own interests? Or is this phenomenon a function of the interaction between mind, politics and society?

George Lakoff is a New York Times bestselling author and his new book, The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st Century American Politics with an 18th Century Mind, will be released May 2008.

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  • Advocate ... Lakoff clearly talks about shortcoming of assuming rational action ... free market theory make many assumptions which aren't always true, and this is why in reality pure free market / unregulated free market often leads to great disparities in wealth ... which undermines your assertion of bringing prosperity to all.

  • What do you mean "just made it up"? It's a theory he developed over a number of years. That's what philosphers and scientists do.

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  • @dendryite Ha ha...you took the time to read my channel page. Nice to meet another fuddy-duddy.

  • @ThisSentenceIsFalse you're right. you're lazy, you're fuzzy-thinking. you're 28 w/no job & no future. why wouldn't you be wowed by old gasbags?

  • @dendryite Yeah, well, Dr. Lakoff was writing it then, too. Stubborn ignorance to claim otherwise.

  • @broakland2 Yeah, you're right. dendryite's comment was not a jerk-baggy at all, not even close.

  •  and he's really, really nice.

  • @ThisSentenceIsFalse and he's really, really nice.

  • @dendryite Wow, that was the most intelligent criticism I ever heard. You must be really smart!

  • Nothing worse than grossly dumbed-down neuroscience. What a bloated gasbag...you could learn more in an intro psychology course. He says NOTHING that wasn't known 20 years ago.

  • this is one loooooooong video

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