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The core problem with American democracy has deep historical roots

The core problem with American democracy has deep historical roots Anti-mask protester https://www.flickr.com/photos/becker271/49903512197 Credit: Paul Becker Becker1999 The covid pandemic has taught us a couple things I want to talk about. One is that public health policies are not important to lots of people that we share democracy with. If the choice is between being wrong about democracy and dying, we have proof that lots of people we share democracy with will choose dying. Two is that politics does not run on a track separate from public health policy. They are the same track. New research by political scientists Julie VanDusky-Allen and Olga Shvetsova finds that states with GOP governors saw more cases of the covid and more deaths by the covid, whereas states with Democratic governors saw the opposite. You might think GOP governors would change their minds about mask mandates, for instance after seeing so much death, but don t bet on it. Recent history sugg

Iowa is in Two American Nations, Which One Do You Live In?

Colin Woodard s 11 American Nations Why do we classify states or regions as “red” or “blue”? How did certain areas of the country gain particular political reputations?  Here in Iowa, considered a “purple” state by many, there is now a  congressional delegation of six Republicans and only one Democrat, and with Governor Terry Branstad winning 98 of 99 counties. We need to understand our differences and where they come from if we want to understand what our political arguments are about. - Colin Woodard  According to Colin Woodard, there’s a whole lot more to the conversation than red versus blue. He’s the author of the 2012 book

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