Thank you George Lakoff

Thank you, George Lakoff.  Personally I subscribe to the idea that our political ideas are driven by behavior, the subconcious mind and emotion.  I just purchased 'Whose Freedom'  and 'The Political Mind', after seeing the theses of these books fit well with perceptions I have observing our political culture.  I have thought many times about writing on these things, though I am tending to do so using a more pedestrian narrative style ( I am a pretty pedestrian individual ).  It is not a straight forward thing to explain we have emotional triggers and these preceed our attachments to an ideology.  We believe ideology emanates from metaphysical or celestial ideals, not as a high level abstractions of desire, and fear, driven at the biological and social-pyschological level.  What George Lakoff does so well is elucidate features of our nature as people that deeply influence our ideological views.  Ideology easily becomes apologetics for any political stripe or motivation. 

'Conservativism' or 'Liberalism' are not pure political paradigms.  They are conventional political expressions that have social aggregations, diverse personality types and much more.  Ideology emanates from the bottom up, not the top down.  It gets 'pushed' from the top back down.  This may not gel with George Lakoff's theses completely.  But I think we agree about what lies at the root of our confusion.