No good takes, it’s just a mess. Theit margin is so slim, and the left and Center are just incompatible in a a coalition. Blank slate: I think Social Democrats should join with Moderates, and Center, keep both extremes out of government

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my read of the OP here is a point about how ordinary citizens allocate their scarce attention, not whether what happens abroad matters. if we think it's bad that attention to national politics has crowded out attention to state/local politics, e.g., surely that extends to international politics

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the second dimension is typically uninterpretable, though sometimes it picks up anti-establishment tendencies. The problem with the graph is it visually equally weights the dimensions even though L/R first dimension explains way way way more of the variance

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NOMINATE reads voting against your party from an ideological extreme as a move toward the center on the partisanship dimension www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Agree this would be useful. You’d have to factor in plastic production, which could keep a lot of that same petroleum infrastructure up and running. But if non-petroleum plastics took hold along with declining gasoline demand, presumably fossil jet fuel would become much more expensive.

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