Regardless of your politics, this fundraising call by @Pinboard paints the most accurate picture of U.S. representative democracy in 2018 than any I've seen. Superb.
http://idlewords.com/2018/10/portrait_of_a_campaign.htm …
I'm the author of it, and I would be super curious to learn how the Republican counterpart of what I described works
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my blind guess is that it's probably similar in many ways but it's harder to tell who everybody is because you can't see through the swarm of grifters
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I think I must mentally block out the image of 4 hours of daily call time in that decrepit cube farm, as a survival strategy. And then a couple of times a year I see a reference to it or a clip of them working the phones and the whole system makes me want to scream.
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