Contents tagged with Politics
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Voter Registration
Two days ago, I helped Washington Citizen Action (WCA) register some voters in the International District of Seattle. I'm somewhat shy, but having a clipboard and a purpose in hand helped me overcome my unease about soliciting strangers in the street. In a little over an hour, I successfully registered 3.5 voters, which my trainer considered better than average for a first-time registrar.
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Sensitive Reptilian Brain
In Cheney Speaks to the Reptilian Brain, Thom Hartmann makes an interesting point about Dick Cheney's ridiculing of John Kerry. Cheney deliberately takes Kerry's remarks about the need for sensitivity in the War on Terror out of context, and subjects them to ridicule with a subtext of fear. Hartmann says this is extremely hard to counter because Cheney's assertions appeal on three levels: to the reptilian brain (survival), to the limbic system (the heart and gut instincts), and to the neocortex (abstract thought).