Thinking about what’s behind the Democratic Party’s toilet-tier approval rating in the context of my own political evolution, the biggest driver IMV has been the catastrophic failure of the project of Systems Change (tm) coupled with a corresponding unwillingness to abandon it 🧵 The whole story in ~2010 on the left was the Piketty era acceleration of wealth polarization, which strongly encouraged a ‘worm at the core’ issue requiring fundamental directional change. 2003 Iraq and 2008 Crash Vibes massively encouraged this on a narrative level.

No issue is more important to understanding modern American sociopolitical dynamics than the relationship of the Becker/Solomon/Greenberg concept of the ‘meaning-providing cultural worldview’ to the construction and preservation of identity/self-concept/self-esteem.🧵 Basically, we are secure in who we are as a function of how ably we feel like we’re able to participate in things that extend beyond ourselves - purpose, belonging, contribution; structures that organize our lives and cohere our place within our imagined worlds.