Can a Clean Toilet Seat Help Predict the Next Election?

Exploring disgust and politics

J.J. Pryor
Politically Speaking
5 min readFeb 17, 2022

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A rubber gloved hand cleaning a toilet thinking about disgust and politics.
Photo by Karolina Grabowska from Pexels

One of my college roommates had a lifelong aversion towards cucumbers. As a cat would yeet across a room when surprised with a cucumber behind him (the cat thinks it’s a snake), my roommate would scraunch in horror at finding a piece of the harmless, tasteless, odorless vegetable at the bottom of a salad.

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J.J. Pryor
Politically Speaking

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