Advocacy Reloaded

Stephen Colbert and 'Saturday Night Live's' mockery only makes Trump stronger The more comedians tweak Trump, the more he is able to portray his own verbal assaults as a necessary response to those determined to turn the president and his followers into a joke.

„When arguing against the other side, don’t use their language because it evokes their frame and not the frame you seek to establish. Never repeat their charges! Instead, use your own words and values to reframe the conversation“

How You Help Trump – FrameLab – Medium Without knowing it, many Democrats, progressives and members of the news media help Donald Trump every day. The way they help him is…

Facts alone are not persuasive. The authors effectively explain the facts but fall short with their framing. For Ford and Scheer it’s all about the framing, the facts not so much. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-when-we-debate-carbon-pricing-can-we-at-least-stick-to-the-facts/

The privatization of healthcare is a case of what Lakoff calls “privateering”, a blend of privatization and profiteering. Point is: public interests are sold out to private corporations who have just one thing in mind: profit maximization. The tax payers’ money is used to provide capital for private corporations, the government’s ability to carry out its mission of citizen protection and empowerment is undermined.

Ford must immediately commit to publicly funded health care | Green Party of Ontario GPO leader and Guelph MPP Mike Schreiner made the following statement regarding the threat to universal health care:“ I call on the Premier and the Minister of Health to commit to public health care…

„Language can shape the way we think. [...] most reporters and editors clearly don’t [know this]. So the press is at a disadvantage when dealing with a super salesman with an instinctive ability to manipulate thought by 1) framing first 2) repeating often, and 3) leading others to repeat his words by getting people to attack him within his own frame.“

Trump has turned words into weapons. And he's winning the linguistic war | George P Lakoff and Gil Duran From ‘spygate’ to ‘fake news’, Trump has turned words into weapons. The press must do more to dull their power

“Taxes protect the most vulnerable in our society, our public lands and other life-giving resources,” she added. “In spite of this, the Trump administration initiated a corporate tax cut, threatening these services at the expense of our planet.” Yes. That’s a good way to frame the tax concept!

Patagonia’s CEO is donating company’s entire $10M Trump tax cut to fight climate change. Stories that connect us and sometimes even change the world.

“When they go low, we frame better.” George Lakoff about the importance of storytelling and framing in political communications.

Linguist George Lakoff on what Democrats don’t understand — and Republicans do — about how voters think George Lakoff, a UC Berkeley cognitive scientist and linguist, says Democratic candidates need to articulate their values and repeat their message over, and over, and over again.

The power of fear and how it’s politically used - fear activates conservative attitudes in the brain. Pretty crazy!

At Yale, we conducted an experiment to turn conservatives into liberals. The results say a lot about our political divisions. They also give reason for hope.

The conservative moral hierarchy at the basis of conservative thinking, positions and policy proposals.

Why are staunch Republicans fine with tear gassing refugee children? It's the conservative moral hierarchy. All conservative policy flows from this hierarchical view of the world. Any time you find yourself asking "why" they do as they do, consult this chart and you will find the answer.

Regulations = Protections

The Science Is Clear: Dirty Farm Water Is Making Us Sick Lettuce contaminated with pathogens have sickened and killed people. But the FDA has shelved Obama-era plans to test the culprit: farms’ irrigation water.

The author asks the right question and provides an accurate overview of Conservative values. However, there is a third possible conclusion he doesn't consider: it is actually not about the policy, it is about discrediting the federal government in order to set the stage for the upcoming elections. Joyce McLean Kristopher Stevens

If you’re a Conservative who opposes carbon pricing, are you really a conservative? On climate policy, Canada’s Conservatives should be true to their brand and stop addressing our greenhouse gas emission problem with inaction