the missing link

[metaphortunate]

American domestic policy...



...is missing a quadrant.

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[snarp]

Nuns, basically. You should write "nuns" in un-aliased MS Paint letters in that corner. It would seriously up the tone of the discourse if there were nun-party candidates taking part in debates and everything.

Seriously, there's in general the sort of intensely religious people who get involved with food pantries and abuse shelters (of which a decent number are nuns). But this isn't really a cultural identity the way those other things are - they aren't a huge demographic, even in the South, and in my experience they're heavily female. They affect local politics by means of applying social pressure and baked goods to the elected and officials and businesspeople whom they lobby for funding, and then campaign for among their social circles if they get what they want consistently enough.

They tend to avoid the topic of national politics in mixed company, and the ones I know are mostly pretty resigned to having various Jews and Jains on the board with them. So, maybe they don't really care about who you're fucking that much? I've only ever found myself having that argument with such an individual once, and she was later to become a pariah amongst the nice church ladies for not-directly-related reasons.

[metaphortunate]

So yeah. But I realize that a thing that I did not get across, is that this is not so much "what I care about" as "what I want the *government* to care about". And for some reason, it seems like the people in that lower right quadrant with regards to personal caring, do not make the leap into wanting the government to care as well.