Hi everyone, welcome to Positively Dreadful with me, your host, Brian Boiler.

So how many times have you heard democratic politicians and party leaders say something

like this? Our country is at risk. Our democracy is at risk. But what we are

campaigning on are the kitchen table issues that affect America's working

families. That was Nancy Pelosi, but it could have been any other leader finding

some way to say we get that there are huge crises facing the country and the

world. But we know that voters care first and foremost about their

pocketbooks. So forgive us for talking about that stuff instead.

Or how about this one? In Georgia right now, the incumbent senator Raphael

Warnock is blessed to be running against a geo-pinominee Herschel Walker whose

only attributes are that he's a friend of Donald Trump's and a former football

star. Walker's been a terrible candidate in just about every other

respect, including in serially lying about children, he fathered out of

wedlock, and even an abortion he paid for several years back, all while he now

runs on criminalizing abortion nationwide. Against that backdrop, here's a

fairly typical quote from Warnock about his opponent's record. We do know that

my opponent has trouble with the truth, and we'll see how this all plays out. But I

am focused squarely on the healthcare needs of my constituents, including

reproductive healthcare. Now, you might think that's shrewd or savvy or you might

find it maddening the way I do, but you can't deny that it's a pivot away from

the passions of the moment to something else. Something in the material realm

usually healthcare costs or access. And I want to say if you aren't a fan of

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