Yes, there is cognitive dissonance but the way to get past it as a politician is not to attack those values, but rather to frame the plan in a way that fits those values better. To get them to see un… (View Post)

Yes, but aren't Teamsters the sort of demographic that I tried to cover in the header? Politics is very much about identity and values. Which is incidentally where Starmer and Reeves are going w… (View Post)

I am back now (Church, of course 😇) Thanks for everyone's kind thoughts on the header. I agree that a lot of life including politics is not very transactional, it is about self-image and emotio… (View Post)

I would disagree. Our understanding of God changes over time, and we see this in the way God is discussed in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. Most Churches value scripture, but that is not thei… (View Post)

Pew Research has a lot of interesting data on religion in America and elsewhere, but it is also a subject that I have thought about a lot. There is a very active Christian debate over much of these i… (View Post)