The Art of Politics: The Liberal Backbone, Chapter 14
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.
Add to basket failed.
Please try again later
Add to Wish List failed.
Please try again later
Remove from Wish List failed.
Please try again later
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
The Art of Politics: The Liberal Backbone, Chapter 14
-
Narrated by:
-
By:
About this listen
Liberals think of rhetoric as something you cut through to get to the substance. But in politics, rhetoric is the substance.
Politics is the art of persuading people. If you can't persuade them, you can't get anything done.
That doesn't mean you have to lie to them.
Yes, Donald Trump uses rhetoric, like all con artists. But so did Barack Obama, like Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, and Cicero did. All saw rhetoric as a tool for moral work.
You can speak poetically and still speak truth — deeper truth, if you do it well.
If liberals want to stop losing, they need to re-learn how.
Here's where to start.
Full transcription and links at dastardlycleverness.com.
No reviews yet
In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.