As we fasten our seatbelts and plunge into the 2024 campaign, here are two conversations worth a re-listen. From 2007, I talk with DREW WESTEN about the ideas and advice in his influential book, THE POLITICAL BRAIN: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation. Westen: Democrats almost always present the best arguments but lose elections to Republicans who have mastered the art of emotion and story-telling. In the second half, my 2009 conversation with BERNIE HORN of the Leadership Training Institute about FRAMING THE FUTURE: How Progressive Values Can Win Elections and Influence People. Horn: Persuadable voters make choices depending on how political issues and questions are framed. Emotion, framing, narratives. Trump traffics in all three.
Rec. JAN 28, 2017-MARK HERTSGAARD, RICHARD ESKOW, DREW DELLINGER-the Week Trump Took Office
ROBERT FRANK, best-selling economist - UNDER THE INFLUENCE: Putting Peer Pressure to Work
DAVID KIRP, author, KIDS FIRST - We know innovative programs that work - whether kids are in school or not
ELIE MYSTAL of The Nation on Racial Justice and the Trump-Barr Assault on Rule of Law
PAUL HOWARD, director, INFINITE POTENTIAL: Life & Ideas of DAVID BOHM
JEAN GUERRERO, author, HATEMONGER: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda
CHUCK COLLINS-Inequality is only getting worse during pandemic
JODIE EVANS (2017) co-founder CodePink, where activism never stops
GREG PALAST-You’ve been warned-HOW TRUMP STOLE 2020 ELECTION
MARCIA COYLE on THE ROBERTS COURT (2013) - What shoiuld we expect with Roberts the new swing vote?
ROBERT JAY LIFTON-LOSING REALITY-Trump, Fox, & Online BS v Pandemic & George Floyd’s death
CONNIE RICE-Decades fighting to change the LAPD-POWER CONCEDES NOTHING
MOVEMENT VOTER PROJECT-Funding the grassroots wins elections + makes change-ELIZABETH FERNANDEZ
ERICA CHENOWETH-Protest - What Really Works Best - Violence or Non-Violence?
GEORGE PACKER, We Are Living in a Failed State
ASTRA TAYLOR, What is Democracy? Is it alive and well?
Inspiring ideas for troubling times-1) Fritjof Capra on Systems Thinking, 2) Stuart Kauffman, Reinventing the Sacred
CHARLOTTE ALTER - THE ONES WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR - Millennials in office. Will a new generation change America?
What stories got us here? Conversation w/ JEREMY LENT, THE PATTERNING INSTINCT (2018)
ROBERT WRIGHT-Why are Americans divided as they confront a pandemic?
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