Yes the shift of the Bible belt Dem to Rep in the last 50 years is not something to be underestimated, indeed may have some way further to go. LBJ ensured his Great Society programmes worked for rura… (View Post)

I would be interested on your thoughts and @Jim_Miller on my header in the previous thread. As bone fide Americans, do you think I was even close? (View Post)

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)