'Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative.'
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker claims conservatives combine heart and brain, while liberals only have heart.
- In plain terms
- Liberals feel; conservatives think and feel.
- What can you take from it?
- Politics is framed as a balance of emotion and logic.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is this a fair view of political ideologies?
Another view
It unfairly characterizes liberals as lacking rational thought.
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