Real agenda is a powerful mechanism. Part of Human Society is figuring out who is us and who is that man who is my group and who is the outgrowth. Outgrowth. Greenwich and answers that pretty easily. If you pray like me and eat like me, if you go to the same church that i do, then you are asked and if you dont then you are then. You can see very easily how that kind of in group and outgroup mindset can easily lead to extremism and marginalization. Religion may be the most powerful form of identity formation that just as powerful is violence. Who do you know who is us and then . If you are fighting against me, you are then so far from the religion and violence they have as everyone knows then much more aligned than we would like them to be. Literature discussed the education gap and the way that parents and teachers can enhance educational experience. He and his wife started a foundation that gives scholarships to innercity students and hes also the author of i got schooled speaking at
imperfections as you mentioned as well, abortion rights, democrats are running on that issue, they re pledging to protect abortion rights, if they can control the state legislature, and the governor s office, and republicans are running on inflation for the recommendation legislative seats and say they will have a tax cut if they retain power. with the turnover, how does the race look? for the state senate, it is coming down to five seats that could really go either way. democrats need to win a couple of them. republicans kind of need a sweep of most of them to keep their majority in the senate. in the house, it s tending to favor republicans right now, but democrats have a play there as well. what about in arizona, brahm? kind of similar story out here, what you re looking at is the potential of, you know, a coupling between a far right governor, or could be the farthest right legislature we ve seen in years. at this point, just one chamber appears to be up for grabs and
on tv, because that s not as effective in the legislative race, although there has been a lot of digital activity as well. one of the issues that is being used out here is democrats control everything, not just the two houses of the legislature, but the governorship. it is one of the issues that the republicans, the republican gubernatorial candidate has used to say we can t have one party control, and so the republican legislative candidates have used that as well. but they ve also used issues like the economy, the covid hangover, and tried to tie legislative candidates to the biden administration for obvious reasons, and even though it s a complete stretch. and so once you get that far down the ticket, i think to some extent, tribalism takes over, and candidates are going to need to have distinguished themselves by knocking on doors, by making their personal pitches? brahm, over to you on this
and in the last state, if you re counting, nebraska has a single house system so just one, if you will, legislature. of those 50 states, five have competitive races, where at least one chamber could flip and we will focus on three of them. joining me now from nevada, the independent ceo and msnbc political analyst john raleston, the detroit news state government and politics reporter, craig mogger and nbc affiliate reporter kpnx tv, brahm resnick. gentlemen, thank you very much. i want to start with michigan. what is at stake for that state, if republicans or democrats are able to gain control of the chambers? there s a lot of history on the line on tuesday here in michigan. democrats have not controlled our state senate since 1984. so nearly 40 years. and there s going to be policy