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Failed Conservative Values: They're Not Working - George Lakoff

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Failed Conservative Values Metaphor: Brian - Threatened Bear and Fear

It’s reverse Robin Hood.  It’s help those who have.  Protect those who have, instead of the whole bigger value of a society is judged by how it takes care of its least fortunate. 

I don’t want to insult animals.  You’re asking me to make a metaphor relating to the animals?  Human being, whatever, in any microenvironment.  Whatever is the most powerful animal that already has.  Maybe a bear when they feel threatened.  I think that’s a good one.  A bear that feels threatened and then just strikes out and strikes everyone.

And it’s also the squirrel – the one that was not saving enough for the winter, too.  Essentially, it is spending our inheritance.  Our inheritance and our children’s inheritance, and then spending the wealth of our country.

When I say wealth, I don’t just mean money.  I mean the moral influence, the moral authority that we have in the world as a self-proclaimed bastion of democracy and freedom.

What is your 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?  

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