Vibes, Values and Policies Create Our Political Reality

Political reality, like the creation of a powerful story, has a couple of core components

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With the US Presidential election in full autumn swing, I’m declaring summer 2024 to be the summer of vibes, the absence of policies and the reemergence of values. Strangely, these three things – vibes, values and policies – are being spoken about in a piecemeal way, whether it’s the Democratic Party’s fixation on vibes, Kamala Harris’ new focus on values or the scant use of the word “policy” and the detail of policies being proposed by both Harris and Trump.

Yet vibes, values and policies mean very little in practice when not spoken about or utilised together. We know and feel this. Political reality is created by all three because they contribute to the story which is politics. So why aren’t we having a conversation about it?

If you take one away – even the recent and hotly conteste…