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u/Bilbo_Fraggins · 0 pointsr/progressive

Oh, and to the OP or anyone else interested interested in what's really going on here, I highly recommend picking up a copy of this book on moral psychology, or if that's too much checking out any of these other resources about politics and moral psychology first: The video in the top right is as good a place as any.

Learning about terror management theory or one of its analogs (René Girard's scapegoat model or TMT through this book if you are religious) is also highly recommended in learning about why the other side always seems to us to be full of assholes. This award winning documentary is a great introduction, streams for free, and is one of my favorite movies ever.

We all need to demonize the other less and work together more on our common goals more, including being able to listen to what the other side has to say.

The first step IMHO is to learn the psychology of what separates us and why. Unfortunately, as research in cognitive science has demonstrated time and time again:
> "Our mental limitations prevent us from accepting our mental limitations."

-Dr. Robert Burton

u/ratjea · 2 pointsr/progressive

It's probably way outdated now, but there was a great book on this topic called Unreliable Sources written in I think 1990. It builds a pretty ironclad case that the media, rather than being in any way liberal, function as a mouthpiece for business and conservative interests.

u/[deleted] · 1 pointr/progressive

You should read "the Candidate" by Samuel Popkin. The Gore campaign was such a clusterfuck, it's really a surprise that the election was as close as it was.

You can get extra credit for also reading Crash!ng the Party by Ralph Nader. He explains why he ran for president, and how Gore could have easily won Florida.

Nader did nothing except expose democrats for trying to look like republicans.

u/FormerDittoHead · 3 pointsr/progressive

For those who respect the Founding Fathers:

Thomas Jefferson:
>Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labour and live on.

Thomas "Common Sense" Paine: (Agrarian Justice)
>Paine proposed a detailed plan to tax property owners to pay for the needs of the poor, which could be considered as the precursor of the modern idea of citizen's income or basic income. The money would be raised by taxing all direct inheritances at 10%, and "indirect" inheritances - those not going to close relations - at a somewhat higher rate;

I should add that Thom Hartmann has written an excellent book which refers to one of the men who conservatives like to quote so much:

http://www.amazon.com/What-Would-Jefferson-Thom-Hartmann/dp/1400052084

u/emalik25 · 3 pointsr/progressive

> The usual argument of these psycho-­pundits is that conservative politicians manipulate voters’ neural roots — playing on our craving for authority, for example — to trick people into voting against their interests. But Haidt treats electoral success as a kind of evolutionary fitness test. He figures that if voters like Republican messages, there’s something in Republican messages worth liking. He chides psychologists who try to “explain away” conservatism, treating it as a pathology. Conservatism thrives because it fits how people think, and that’s what validates it. Workers who vote Republican aren’t fools. In Haidt’s words, they’re “voting for their moral interests.”

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/books/review/the-righteous-mind-by-jonathan-haidt.html?pagewanted=all

For the book being reviewed: http://www.amazon.com/The-Righteous-Mind-Politics-Religion/dp/0307377903

u/louderthanbombs · 1 pointr/progressive

This guy wrote a great book about the journalism of social justice movements called People's Movements, People's Press

u/midgetparty · 2 pointsr/progressive

This is like.. my favorite political book in the past few years. Everybody I know loves Thom!

http://www.amazon.com/Screwed-Undeclared-Against-Currents-Paperback/dp/1576754634

u/danfromstl · 1 pointr/progressive

Everyone interested in this topic MUST read Michelle Alexander's book The New Jim Crow.
In America, our silence perpetuates a system of mass incarceration at great cost to our society.

Also, the documentary The House I Live In is a MUST watch.

u/IndustrialEngineer · 3 pointsr/progressive

>What you are arguing for is the dissolution of the US government as defined by the founders.

No, that's what we have had. The US government was not intended to be a single entity, but rather a federation of largely self-governing states.

We have differing opinions and something tells me we're not going to convince each other. I personally believe that localism is required for true liberty. I do not have any race-based intentions at all - I was born and raised in NYC and am "colorblind." If you want to see the perspective of the pro-nullification crowd read this book.

u/plbogen · 1 pointr/progressive

Exactly, Rove is a ruthless and fucking brilliant political strategist. It's like he is out of a novel.

u/DaBake · 6 pointsr/progressive

ding ding ding

Michael Sean Winters actually just wrote a book about this very topic.

God's Right Hand: How Jerry Falwell Made God a Republican and Baptized the American Right

He also just did an interview on Book TV

u/NightmareWarden · 1 pointr/progressive

The book bringing this point to light is Dark Money according to the article. The Koch family is not providing sources for the author and they are critical of the book. Let's all keep in mind that whatever you may think of the Koch family it is completely possibly that this book twists truth and stretches evidence beyond reason. Take that mindset to heart with any such book.

u/Frilly_pom-pom · 5 pointsr/progressive

Awesome article.

For more, here's a decent documentary based on Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent:

>It's basically an institutional analysis of the major media, what we call a propaganda model[...] they do this in all sorts of ways: by selection of topics, by distribution of concerns, by emphasis and framing of issues, by filtering of information, by bounding of debate within certain limits. They determine, they select, they shape, they control, they restrict -- in order to serve the interests of dominant, elite groups in the society.

u/WiseCynic · 2 pointsr/progressive

For the answer to this and other important questions about American police, please see the book titled "Rise of the Warrior Cop" by Radley Balko.

The paperback should be out soon.

u/weshallrise · -1 pointsr/progressive

You would do well to read the book The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science - and Reality by Chris Mooney. You may be able to find it at your local library. If not, it is worth the price to purchase it, especially if you have lots of Right Wing folks in your family. I learned so much reading this book and cannot recommend it highly enough!

And thanks for the link at the end of your post! I've been laughing my ass off for the last 15 minutes!