{"id":5433,"date":"2017-07-14T17:43:48","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T00:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=5433"},"modified":"2020-10-18T11:45:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T18:45:51","slug":"george-lakoff-on-the-conservative-moral-hierarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2017\/07\/14\/george-lakoff-on-the-conservative-moral-hierarchy\/","title":{"rendered":"George Lakoff on the Conservative Moral Hierarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retired UC Berkeley professor George Lakoff answers <a href=\"https:\/\/georgelakoff.com\/2017\/07\/01\/two-questions-about-trump-and-republicans-that-stump-progressives\/\">Two Questions About Trump and Republicans that Stump Progressives<\/a>, a piece that has gotten some circulation the past couple weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The questions are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n1) Why don\u2019t Trump supporters turn against Trump even though he is doing things that hurt them? (like taking away their healthcare)<\/p>\n<p>2) Why do Republicans hate the Affordable Care Act, and why are they so transparently acting to give wealthy people a tax break by making healthcare unaffordable?<\/p>\n<p>Here is the short answer: <b>All politics is moral<\/b>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because Trump supporters feel he is on their side, even if they personally might be disadvantaged. <\/p>\n<p>Lakoff&#8217;s piece is long, and goes into brain science, and it ends with a crisp summary of what he calls &#8220;The Conservative Moral Hierarchy&#8221;: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n\u2022 God above Man<br \/>\n\u2022 Man above Nature<br \/>\n\u2022 The Disciplined (Strong) above the Undisciplined (Weak)<br \/>\n\u2022 The Rich above the Poor<br \/>\n\u2022 Employers above Employees<br \/>\n\u2022 Adults above Children<br \/>\n\u2022 Western culture above other cultures<br \/>\n\u2022 America above other countries<br \/>\n\u2022 Men above Women<br \/>\n\u2022 Whites above Nonwhites<br \/>\n\u2022 Christians above non-Christians<br \/>\n\u2022 Straights above Gays\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>His analysis aligns with Jonathan Haidt&#8217;s more abstract analysis of how moral values depends on six moral &#8220;foundations&#8221; (see my discussion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2015\/12\/08\/more-notes-and-comments-about-haidts-the-righteous-mind\/\">here<\/a>), but Lakoff identifies the implications of one range of these foundations into how it plays out in contemporary American politics.<\/p>\n<p>(And, let&#8217;s see, how many items in that hierarchy could I argue with or do not believe in? Maybe all but one.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired UC Berkeley professor George Lakoff answers Two Questions About Trump and Republicans that Stump Progressives, a piece that has gotten some circulation the past couple weeks. The questions are: 1) Why don\u2019t Trump supporters turn against Trump even though &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2017\/07\/14\/george-lakoff-on-the-conservative-moral-hierarchy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,22,30,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservative-resistance","category-evolution","category-mind","category-morality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5435,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433\/revisions\/5435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}