Left and love 1
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Posted 12:23 PM on 7 Dec 2004
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We would be remiss if we did not point out that our intrepid editor Kathryn Schulz has a forceful, eloquent, and quite beautiful meditation on love and politics running in The Nation. Go ye and read it.
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sandy m Posted 1:58 am
16 Dec 2004
Ms. Shulz is especially prescient in her appeal to the left to reclaim, or create anew, a vision of America -- and believe in it. There's been a lot of talk about framing since the elections; I hope that Lakoff's work will not have the limited effect of encouraging liberal activists and politicians to re-cast policy in terms of basic metaphors (weakness v. strength, sickness v. health), but will actually push us all to re-think (Ms. Shulz says "re-vision") liberal politics in those terms. What is the liberal vision of a "stong" America? Clinton, always intuitive about these things, reminded the audience at the Democratic National Convention that "strength and wisdom are not opposing values." So there's a start.
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