Prius Or Pickup?: How the Answers to Four Simple Questions Explain America's Great Divide

by Marc Hetherington

America’s main political parties don’t just disagree on how to solve problems, they disagree on what the problems are in the first place.

Where people with a fixed worldview hear commonsense wisdom, people with a fluid worldview hear nothing but intolerance.

Opportunistic leaders can gin up fear about a host of issues, making voters think it’s better to be safe than sorry—a classically fixed way of thinking, but one that leads to some very dark places.

COVID Long term Cyclical Climate Variation

To be sure, Britain had, before and since its entry into the Common Market in 1973, always been something of an ambivalent partner in the European project.

though inequality has increased substantially in some countries, like Britain,

Another myth. https://fee.org/articles/new-study-calls-into-question-the-theory-of-rising-inequality/

they are ripe for manipulation by political elites who are willing to exploit voters’ biases to gain power.

The definition of members of the Democratic Party

Elites won’t change their behavior to reduce polarization, even if doing so would be good for the country.

Mostly Democrats. They can afford to live in walled enclaves with private security and avoid the consequences of their actions.

Whereas a third of Fortune 100 leaders had endorsed Mitt Romney by the third quarter of 2012, none had endorsed Trump at the same juncture four years later.

Thus class is the issue, not fixed versus fluid. It's all about the Benjamin$.

younger generations now coming of age have the opportunity to reshape the political landscape around the issues they care most about.

as indoctrinated in the extremely fluid education complex.