First, this excellent and the core issue facing the US. The control of the controllable has been a major goal of billionaires, especially starting with the Koch brothers organization of political funding with a plan (a step function jump starting about 30 years ago).

The only way to counter this is to organize billionaires on the other side to counter the spending on think tanks and real conspiracies to win elections with “right” thinking corruptible candidates at every level replaced with or countered with candidates with attributes known to win in deep red states that are open to solutions and not just constant propaganda.

As to cheese I don’t like blue cheese but there is a small award winning blue cheese place near Ashland Or that wife would visit.