The Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across the Political Divides

About this book

When it was first released in 2013 Arnold Klings The Three Languages of Politics was a prescient exploration of political communication detailing the three tribal coalitions that make up Americas political landscape. Progressives conservatives and libertarians he argued are like tribes speaking different languages. As a result political discussions do not lead to agreement. Instead most political commentary serves to increase polarization. Now available as a newly revised and expanded edition Klings book could not be any more timely as Americanswhether as media pundits or conversing at a partytalk past one another with even greater volume heat and disinterest in contrary opinions.The Three Languages of Politics is an accessible precise and insightful guide to how to lower the barriers coarsening our politics. This is not a book about one ideology over another. Instead it is a book about how we communicate issues and our ideologies and how language intended to persuade instead divides. Kling offers a way to see through our rhetorical blinders so that we can incorporate new perspectives nuances and thinking into the important issues we must together share and resolve.