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I began babysitting when I was eleven.

Politics, News & Issues > Party Politics & Ideology American liberalism and the Democratic party critiqued

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THIS IS YOUR BRAIN; THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON POLITICS Drew Weston is a neuroscientist who has been studying how the brain processes political and legal information as well as a clinician who trains psychologists and psychiatrists in understanding the "nuances of of meaning in what people say, do and feel." He has written a book that is getting a lot of attention lately for it's criticism of Liberals and the Democratic party The central thesis of THE POLITICAL BRAIN: THE ROLE OF EMOTION IN DECIDING THE FATE OF THE NATION is that the assumptions of the past from the time of Plato and Socrates a...

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