“The basic political argument since the French Revolution has been the left saying, “Let’s make things more fair,” and the right saying, “If we do that, it will lead to chaos and threaten your family.””https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/david-shor-cancel-culture-2020-election-theory-polls.html …
“Rich people have disproportionate cultural influence. So business does pull the party right. But it does so more through the mechanism of using its cultural power to influence public opinion, not through donations to campaigns.”
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“When broadband reached a given congressional district, ticket-splitting declined and ideological polarization went up” https://www.jstor.org/stable/26379489
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“The Senate was always a really fucked-up anti-majoritarian institution. But it was okay because people in Nebraska used to vote randomly. But now they have the internet, and they know that Democrats are liberal.”
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“This is an incredibly important year. This is our last chance to win a trifecta for a very long time. And if we don’t win the presidency, things could get very dark.”
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