I mean...they're politicians. They love joining things. Don't you ever read a candidate's biography on their site and it gets to "an active member of [list of 27 different clubs and organizations]"?https://twitter.com/benkesslen/status/1044988707802173440 …
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Like if you want to run for office, by all accounts, the best things to have are 100 people you can ask to volunteer for you and 500 people you can ask for money. "Politicians like to have lots of relatively shallow social connections", isn't that the classic Dahl finding?
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The political skill you read about over and over again is being able to make small talk with 1000 people and remember their names and a little bit about them. They're involved with Rotary International. I don't even know what that is.
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So anyway, striking as that is (and uh citation needed), it's not exactly surprising to me if fraternities over-represent in Congress (especially since COLLEGE EDUCATION does in the first place).
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When I used to do fundraising analysis, usually, a surprisingly large % of early donors were connected personally to the candidate in some way. Tulsi Gabbard was a particular odd extreme of this, but you know, even other people are on the board of such-and-such with so-and-so.
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(Well, the ones I really looked into were Tulsi Gabbard, Kyrsten Sinema, and Andrei Cherny, so those might not have been representative.)
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I wish I could remember, but some politician supposedly said at the start of their career "you should recruit me because there's X thousand people in this state who I talk to on a first-name basis".
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"They are all named Steve"
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