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Why the Right is Obsessed with Daddy | George Lakoff

Have you ever asked yourself why the right talks the way it talks? George Lakoff may have the answer. - Metaphorical Matters

00:00 Intro 
01:59 Parenting and Politics: Basics 
05:04 Family Metaphor in Politics 
06:50 Conservative World Beliefs 
08:02 Political Consequences 
09:07 What the right acutally means 
10:03 Why these beliefs? 

Part 2: Why the Right talks like that | George Lakoff 

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