A week after the offcycle elections in the united states, i am still thinking about them intensely. This was a very urgent warning to democrats. The fact that they lost an election in the now pretty solidly blue state of virginia to a republican candidate by reasonably clear margin shows just how much democrats will have to change. Most americans also think that democrats are way out there on culture, that they are overly mystic about their own country. We should try and view each other as human beings first and foremost,. There's much more that unites us than that separates us. And now the good fight with yasha monk.