Principals and superintendents to say that you have kids in the region qualifying yet only 40 kids are taking it. N you look at your taxes when i had to subsidize my classrooms, it made me very angry. Andy, what is your take on these results . Well, Big Questions about what the future of state and federal policy are going to look like. It looks like the nation is rebelling 35, maybe 40 years of the drift of policy on this. What i mean is there is a sense that americas local system of schools werent getting the job done in the way we need them to. Say, the late 1970s, early 1980s, scores on the sats and so forth. There has been this impulse to centralize more and more. We have the accountability movements of the 1980s and 1990s. The apotheosis of accountability. Top,we had race to the where we get more and more power in the State Government and at the federal government. Going through these results, it is remarkable i use the term technocrat, the idea that a central administrator with T
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. George lakoff for years has been studying political messaging and how people digest the message of public discourse. He is an author and Professor Emeritus of cognitive science and linguistics at u. C. Berkeley. He joins us to talk about how failing to understand unconscious thought and moral world views has frustrated democrats and progressives as they try to counter the trump message with basic logic. Professor lakoff, good to have you on the program. A pleasure to be here. Linguistically, size up donald trump for me. Its not just linguistically its mentally. He knows how not just to speak but how to change your brain and affect your brain very effectively. Hes a super salesman, and hes very good at it. You need to know a little about your brain which is ideas dont float in the air. Theyre in your neural circuitry. If you have a world view, your understanding of the world in general, then thats a lot of neural
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. George lakoff for years has been studying political messaging and how people digest the message of public discourse. He is an author and Professor Emeritus of cognitive science and linguistics at u. C. Berkeley. He joins us to talk about how failing to understand unconscious thought and moral world views has frustrated democrats and progressives as they try to counter the trump message with basic logic. Professor lakoff, good to have you on the program. A pleasure to be here. Linguistically, size up donald trump for me. Its not just linguistically its mentally. He knows how not just to speak but how to change your brain and affect your brain very effectively. Hes a super salesman, and hes very good at it. You need to know a little about your brain which is ideas dont float in the air. Theyre in your neural circuitry. If you have a world view, your understanding of the world in general, then thats a lot of neural
Waste over 50 Million Dollars for candidates and specifically with the Bernie Sanders campaign we endorsed very early, raised one point 8 million for him. Members participated in 115,000 phone banks. 75 billionm to make phone calls during the course of the campaign which is an outrageously awesome number and one of the reasons the media was not capable of killing the campaign. We played a very important part in their that we really appreciated being able to do and it seems like the perfect way to continue on the work of what democracy for america is all about which is about fighting a strategy of battling up and down the country. What we are here for today is the next steps for the Political Revolution. We have some great candidates, bernie is no longer a candidate the presidency well, i guess technically that will be true in a few weeks but technically since he endorsed hillary i think we can say that confidently. But we have Political Revolution candidates up and down the pellet in a
If youre like me were out extremely late last night and this is super early. Thank you very much for taking the time to come here and participate. That, i would like to give each panelist a chance to briefly introduce themselves. Rojas. G with alexandra hello, everyone. My name is alexandra. I used to work on the Burning Campaign as a Digital Field manager on the distributed organizer team. Shortly after, granted congress is not an old concept in women talking about it for quite some time. , it is nots necessarily a new idea. A good place for me to go next after bernie. And just a bit background, im 21. Im still in progress with going to school. But bernie, as many volunteers have, has just consumed. Im into political organizing as well as activism. Mariahave state senator the doll running for congress. By Marissa Palma doll and i was a state representative for three terms and in the second term of my time in the senate with the missouri senate, it was a pleasure to endorse bernie, i t