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I agree with Lakoff's analysis and find this psychoanalytic review insightful. However, I would argue Lakoff's label for the "Strict Father Model" should be more accurately relabeled as "The Punitive Parent Model".
SUMMARY: The Primitive Conservative Psyche
OpEdNews - Feb. 25, 2011.
Berkeley professor and author George Lakoff advises us to see more deeply into the psychology of this crisis. We need to understand, he writes, how the conservative belief in individual responsibility, to the exclusion of social responsibility, ...