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George Lakoff had a nice op-ed in the Globe on Independence Day. The piece summarized many of the points in his his new book, The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain. A linguist and founder of the Rockridge Institute, Lakoff uses the book to argue that our worldviews are based largely on different frames that provide us with structure for our thinking. Because conservatives have framed political debate in their own terms for the past few decades, our country—and its politics—are now based on a conservative worldview. In order for progressives to create change, they must re-frame the way we think about politics, ourselves, and America.