@St_Rev armchair psychology on my part, admittedly, but as an explanatory hypothesis it kind of works
@schakalsynthetc I'm anti-prog in practice because as a living political system it's way too much like fascism for me.
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@St_Rev a great example of the kind of tendency that makes my skin crawl is a piece by Lakoff about framing of the state -
@St_Rev his take was, conservatives frame the state as a disciplinarian, liberals frame the state as nurturing parent, and so bla bla bla -
@St_Rev I was just left going, wait, what happened to the frame where we're all grownups negotiating allocations of power & responsibility > -
@St_Rev < ideally according to some commonly accepted standard of consent? -
@schakalsynthetc Concur 100%, Lakoff's a jackoff. "What about the frame where WE AREN'T GOD DAMNED CHILDREN?"
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