(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, June 28, 2008
Failed Conservative Values: Gordon Wright on Psychopaths and Fear Gordon Wright values freedom but was raised by a conservative autocratic, dictatorial and bully of a father. He feels conservatives fear life's changes and it's spontaneity. An example is how all of George Bush's public events are totally choreographed and controlled events. He also thinks that the corporate conservatives value of heartlessness and unfettered self-interest, are the same values as a psychopaths.

(8 comments) SHARE        Friday, June 27, 2008
The Failed Conservative Values of James Dobson James Dobson is a major leader of the social conservatives. He is considered one of the more moderate of the 'Value Voters' leaders because he doesn't support spanking any child under the age of 18 months, while other conservative leaders do. Dobson is now attacking Barrack Obama. Isn't it time for progressives to start unmasking how the values of the conservative movement have failed?

SHARE        Thursday, June 26, 2008
Failed Conservative Values: Elaine Charkowski on Patriarchy Family Values Elaine Charkowski talked to me about how conservative values have failed. She says, Conservative Family Values is about patriarchy and fear of authority. It's about not using your own mind and woman are to be subservient to the man. The type of power used is random punishment and reward, which studies show is the best way to drive animals crazy.

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Failed Conservative Values: Louise Specht on Hierarchy Authoritarian Narcissism I asked Louise Specht about the the failure of conservative values. She addressed the hierarchal and authoritarian nature of conservativism and how this can lead to narcissism for the people at the top. Steven Colbert does a great job of imitating a conservative on the Colbert Report. I just saw him begin his show lately by saying, "Did I tell you I love me lately?" He hit's the nail on the head, as does Louise.

(11 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Failed Conservative Values: Dona Ridgeway on Authoritarianism  Donna Ridgeway is a blogger living in the Santa Cruz, California area. She was raised republican and was in the military, but then started questioning. She says the Failed Conservative Value is authoritarianism, it's a lose lose situation because if the authoritarian fails, everything fails. However she sees a lot of problems with progressives as well. There's a lot of egos with progressives and herding cats is hard.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, June 21, 2008
Failed Conservative Values: Arianna Huffington on Family Values Hypocrisy Arianna Huffington is a well know progressive speaker and activist. She started the popular Huffington Post website and it seems you can't turn on a progressive TV show without her popping up on it and taking a swipe at the conservatives. I saw Arianna at our local bookstore where she was promoting her new book, The Right is Wrong. During the Q and A, I asked her how conservative values have failed. She had plenty to say.

(8 comments) SHARE        Friday, June 20, 2008
Failed Conservative Values: They're Not Working - George Lakoff George Lakoff is a linguistics professor at UC Berkeley and author of numerous books on metaphors, framing and politics. Howard Dean has called him, "one of the most influential political thinkers of the progressive movement." George was at our local bookstore talking about his latest book, The Political Mind. During the question and answer period, I asked him if he personally feels that Conservative Values have Failed?

(8 comments) SHARE        Friday, June 13, 2008
Failed Conservative Values: David Sirota on Economic Darwinism David Sirota came and talked about his new book, 'The Uprising' at the Oakland Democracy for America meet-up on June 11, 2008.  During the Q and A, I asked David how conservative values have failed and he talked about the failure of Conservative Economic Darwinism. The full video of his 70 minute talk is now online.

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Attack of the Anaconda - Failed Conservative Values Sometimes it helps to use a bit of imagination and creativity to look at things in a different way to shake up the status quo and change mindsets. I've been asking people to create a metaphor for the Failed Conservative Values. For example, if conservative values were a type of machine, or land, or animal, etc., what would they be like? Here are some of the images people came up with.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Failed Conservative Values: Nancy Kops on Selfishness I interviewed Nancy Kops and asked her about Failed Conservative Values and what are Progressive Values. She feels caring is the most important liberal-progressive value. She knows many conservatives and finds them to have good hearts and be very caring about the people around them. However, she can't figure out why they can be attracted to the Republican Party. She thinks they just don't see the big picture.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, June 9, 2008
Failed Conservative Values: Arun Akkineni on Self-Righteousness I interviewed Arun Akkineni about Failed Conservative Values. He felt that self-righteousness is a Failed Conservative Value and it's scary and dangerous. With self-righteousness, you see the world as black and white and don't see the nuances. You also don't incorporate other peoples ideas, which makes for poor decision making. He points to the current conservative administrations creation of the war and occupation of Iraq..

(4 comments) SHARE        Sunday, June 8, 2008
Failed Conservative Values: Aris Harmon on Fear and Power I interviewed Aris Harmon about the failure of conservative values. He said conservatives can be very nice people but they try to maintain the status quo and are afraid of change. For this reason, their fear of change is easily manipulated by other conservatives such as, Grover Norquist and Abramoff, whose sole value is power at any cost. He also sees the failure of critical thinking as the reason conservatives are so eas

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, May 31, 2008
Failed Conservative Values: All about Greed I interviewed people around the Democracy for America booth at the California Democratic Party Convention in San Jose. I asked people how have conservative values failed? It surprised me how many responded that the conservative value of greed was the biggest failure. Here are some of the comments.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, May 30, 2008
Progressive Values Stories: Jim Dean on Responsibility and Participation In this second part of my interview with Jim Dean, Chair of Democracy for America, Jim talks about the Progressive Values of responsibility and participation. Progressives are now standing up to participate in and take responsibility over the political process. Democracy for America helps in supporting these Progressive Values of Responsibility and Participation.

(6 comments) SHARE        Thursday, May 29, 2008
Failed Conservative Values: Jim Dean on Corruption I interviewed Jim Dean, Chair of Democracy for America (DFA) at the Democratic Party Convention in San Jose, California. I asked Jim how conservative values have failed. He says current conservativism is like a despotic dictator and is about corruption, power and the rewarding of friends.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, May 23, 2008
Progressive Values Stories: Norman Solomon on We're All in it Together I interviewed Norman Solomon at the 2008 Democratic Party Convention in San Jose, California. Norman is a columnist and his book "War Made Easy" was recently made into a movie with Sean Penn narrating it. In this second part of the interview, he talks about the progressive value of responsibility for each other. This responsibility is the basis of the popular progressive phrase, 'We're All in it Together'.

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Failed Conservative Values: Norman Solomon on Dog Eat Dog Greed I interviewed Norman Solomon at the 2008 Democratic Party Convention in San Jose, California. Norman is a columnist and his book "War Made Easy" was recently made into a movie. He talked about how he sees 'dog eat dog greed' as a Failed Conservative Value.

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Progressive Values Stories: Scott Henderson on the Common Good I interviewed Scott Henderson in Los Angeles. Scott told me the Common Good was the most important progressive value and 'we're all in it together'. He tells a story about growing up in the 50's and feeling a sense of community, but that we've lost that now. He thinks conservatives characterize progressives as wanting to be supported by the state and thinks conservatives have good intentions and mean well, but....

(7 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Failed Conservative Values: Jeeni Criscenzo on Scapegoating I interviewed Jeeni Criscenzo in Sacramento, California. Jeeni brought up the prevalent use of scapegoating by conservatives. I find it curios how a Conservative Movement that preaches individual responsibility is so adept at finding scapegoats and not taking true responsibility. I think it has to do with the type of responsibility they preach. It is not the unqualified progressive sense of responsibility,....

SHARE        Sunday, April 27, 2008
Failed Conservative Values: Barack Obama on Status Quo versus Change In his Pennsylvania primary speech, Barack Obama talked about change and how the Status Quo resists change. As I interview people about what are Progressive Values and about how Conservative Values have Failed, the interviewees repeatedly talk about the conservative fear of change and the promotion of the status quo.