The Little Blue Book: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic

Preface: Real reason, the unconscious kind, uses a logic very different from that typically taught in departments of political science, economics, law, and public policy Democrats, frequently trained in those fields, have not commonly been taught the mechanisms of real thought—the neural processes that characterize phenomena such as cognitive frames and conceptual metaphors. Especially in politics, these can vary considerably between conservatives and progressives, who differ in their values and their mode of reason. They have been taught, and still believe, that people are at all times consciously aware of what they think and that words are defined directly in terms of the world. They commonly believe that everyone reasons the same way and that if they just tell people the facts, most people will reason to the right conclusion. But since this is scientifically false, it keeps not happening.