Stephan:   As I have said dozens if not hundreds of times, I really don't care about partisan politics, I only care about social outcomes. My view is that the function of the state is to produce wellness. So my evaluations are always based on this question: Does this policy or person produce increased wellness, or does it or they degrade wellness? In the last few years something has happened to our politics and one party, its policies and its members, overwhelmingly degrade wellness and reduce the wellbeing of Americans, and I make this assessment based not on political arguments but objectively measurable facts. Nowhere is this more clearly made evident then in the drive to control the autonomy and rights of women; it has become an obsession for the Republicans and it has reached levels that make us absurd in the rest of the developed world.  Here is an example of what I mean.  The only thing that is going to change this is Americans voting to change it. Unfortunately in Red value states like Oklahoma Americans don't seem to want to.