In this week's episode, we're still talking about the tenets and principles of Clean Thinking and we're doing so via part 2 of our sixth and final discussion of a specific influence: our politics. As discussed in the episode, while religion may intuitively seem to be a more powerful influence on people's lives than politics, that may not be the case. As host Mike Marcella notes, politics has the potential to affect so many different aspects of our lives, and as a result, is a nearly omnipresent influence. And because of this, it's very powerful, especially when combined with religion. Also like religion, it is an influence made up of all our other influences, which synergistically combine to make it a force in our lives. In this episode, Mike describes all of those other influences that contribute to our politics influence, details how they can affect our perception of different issues and then walks through an example of the IMMACULATE Process, specifically the politically charged issue of whether or not to wear a mask to slow the spread of COVID.