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Boris, Brexit, Great balls of fire.

Borous, Brexit, Great Balls of Fire.

Monday, December 16th, 2019. Introduction

To hear some people talk about it, the rambunctious state of politics in the English-speaking world is merely about the various presenting

issues, as in whatever the next vote is going to be about.

And of course in some sense we have to grant that the issue, whatever it is, is the issue.

But the issue is never the only issue.

There are at least two layers underneath whatever the issue might be.

The presenting issue could be impeachment, or Brexit, or an oil pipeline or trade negotiations with

China and so on and there we all are each with our hot take on it.

All kinds of people who are all over the map can have their sundry in various takes.

But underneath those issues are the political worldviews, of which the two basic alternatives

currently are conservatism and progressivism.

These frameworks mean that there will usually be a certain consistency across the various

responses to the various issues with one faction tending to trust the state

with the dooring eyes and the other not so much looking sideways at the state with adoring eyes and the other not so much, looking sideways at the state

with squinty eyes.

This is the layer that those with a consistent political viewpoint are often most concerned

about.

It is worth remembering that those who have a consistent

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