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action allows hope allows acceptance
active processing
Alternative Group Boundaries
Anger
Avoid Displaced Anger
Processing emotions such as anger
Anger and Civility
argue with your preferred opponent
Asides: techniques from Cognitive Politics applied elsewhere
authoritarianism
Bedrock Centrism
Big Tent / Welcome
breaking patterns
debunking
leading with facts (backfires)
charlottesville
Checklist - Warning Signs
Winning Your Conversation
Climate Change
cognitive bias, overcoming
communication techniques
active listening
Altercasting
Encourage Talk Beyond Talking-Points
Questions
How Will That Work
Skip the conclusion
yes, and...
compare contrast framing techniques
Complexify
contradictions in framing
contrasting framing techniques
Conversation Basics: Agree
Agree on fears and move on
Conversation Steps
Ask
Listen
Observation
Reflect
Request
Share
conversational frame
judgment as the purpose of a conversation, avoiding
corporate media
DACA
Debunking: Emotions & Community
definitions
Echo This: Send Oxygen to the Healthy Debates
economics
exchange listening
Fact Artillery — Deeper Foxholes
Facts: When They Work, When They Fail
Facts Support Stories
false opposites: ideas with tension
Fight, Flight or Friends
Openness to humor and levity
Floater Centrism
Gish Gallop (countering)
health care
Holding a movement together
hypocrisy doesn't prevent shame
ideas in tension
immigration
immigration
inoculation
double crux
inside progressive movements
Intra-Progressive Communications
Introduction
Judgment: Weight Facts, Don't Judge Entire Belief Systems
language and frame
advocate for framing
Indirect: provide frames or facts outside political arguments
lesser evil
lies and their frames
mainstream media
mainstream media
major themes
metaphor
minimum wage
moral foundations values
sanctity vs disgust
Mueller
Net Neutrality
nurture your curiousity
Paradoxical Thinking, or Over-Active Listening
police brutality
political strategy
Sanders Double-Movement
social issues trap
Southern Strategy trap
practical framing
Productivity and Wages
Progressives, internal dynamics
protests on the left
psychology, values, moral foundations
religion & politics
requests
research needed
rewriting reframing examples
Sanders Double-Movement
Say "yes" to what you want, not "no" to the other ideas
say why before your conclusion
separating moral foundation values
Separation of the Righteous
Social Media: Junk Food vs Health food
social-media-checklist
strategies, misc
steel argument
team story
Exiting the Trump Train
journey together
messengers
Teams and Identities
Continuing down the path
Tribalism, Centrism, Values
Trolling Techniques: (1) Outrage —> (2) Anger —> (3) Circle the Wagons cycle
Trolling, provocation and other challenges
Trolling Techniques: (1) Outrage —> (2) Innocent Echo —> (3) Attacked
Trump
Vaccine Hesitancy
vaccine hesitancy
values and priorities — tune to theirs
white supremacy / alt-right
Your state of mind
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