1. This gets at something very odd about how the Democrats see politics which came out in the debate over Shorism & popularism -- as a service industry where the job is to get as many customers as possible but provide them with the bare minimum to keep their patronage.https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/1450447407595016193 …
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3. One reason I'm predisposed to like Shor does open the path for turning bad service politics into the direction where it has to actual deliver the goods: not just talk about what's popular but do it ("deliverism" as
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4. (Tangentially, this is why somber invocations of Weber & the ethics of responsibility miss the mark. Weber's politics came from an honor culture where there was emotional investment in stakes. Dem operatives are in sales culture of careerism. The Duel versus The Office).
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5. For more on the promise and peril of "popularism" and its narrow view of politics, I sat down with
@bellye66 for a little chat:https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-david-shors-popularism?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source= …Show this thread
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Yeah, but even on its own terms thats a lot of work for meager results. I mean you can achieve those goals by other means.
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Indeed. I once fancied a career in politics but watched people with far more power than me fail to advance their agenda meaningfully. Ended up in non-profit work and have seen lives saved and communities transformed.
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Ego. Politicians like this get to tell themselves they're powerful and "making a difference", while also accepting the inevitable politically-connected lucrative rewards as just something they deserve for their public service.
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Get into politics to: 1. Prevent the Right from doing bad things 2. Changes things in a small way that benefits a small number of people. Sometimes that's the best we can do.
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