Just ask yourself if you feel there is some truth in this statement.
I show in my book that American progressives and their supporters have always shared this feeling.
Title: Progressive Logic: Framing A Unified Field Theory Of Values For Progressives. ISBN: 0-9773717-1-9
Progressives have had great political successes in the past. We can learn the lessons of that past, and repeat those successes in the future.
Progressive Logic distills the principles of value that have actually come out of the past political triumphs of progressives in the US, from abolition through the labor movement, the civil rights movement, and the New Deal Those principles form a single logic of values - progressive logic. The basic value premise of progressive logic is "all persons always deserve positive regard." The evidence from the past shows that American progressive activists and voters have shared this basic premise for generations, but without being fully aware of it.
As George Lakoff has shown, we progressives need to try a new approach for communicating our policies to the people. Democrats and Republicans seek votes with vague slogans and manipulative sound bites. But this approach alienates as many people as it attracts.
Framing issues in the terms of progressive logic will manifest honor for Americans as intelligent, rational, and other-regarding people. This new approach to communicating with the public is sure to attract attention to our candidates and issues.
Activists, speechwriters, journalists, and campaigners can easily use progressive logic. With its power of persuasion, and because it honors the intellects of the people, it will change the way Americans vote.
The reader will see how progressive logic can be applied on such issues as:
*Criminal justice system reform;
*Consumerism and the loss of community;
*The quality of life revolution;
*Abortion and the right to die; and,
*Religion in politics.
The book shows that using progressive logic can be the winning strategy for bringing about a new "New Deal."
We progressives need to know more of our past, precisely so that we can repeat it!
Yours,
William J. Kelleher, Ph.D.
wjkellpro@aol.com
Ph.D. Political Science, 1984
University of California, Santa Barbara
BA, MA, San Francisco State
Bio at: http://www.empathicscience.org/about.html
(Available at amazon.com for $14.95 + s/h; or, through Baker&Taylor.
Also available at the author's web site http://www.empathicscience.org/proglog.html
for only $10.00, free s/h.)
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