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========== Why he's not a Republican any more, and not going to become a Democrat either https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/12/03/i-left-republican-ideological-bubble-i-dont-want-join-another When he realized he was mistaken, he admitted it, corrected it, and learned from it. That's how we learn almost everything. Here's another testimonial - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/12/04/how-derek-black-went-golden-boy-white-nationalism-outspoken-critic The classic extremist response is the opposite - double down on mistakes and hit back harder. The denunciations from inside Boot's former bubble - are not unlike those from the far left for centrist Democrats. To see where that leads - just look at what's left of the California Republican Party. https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/30/no-party-preference-overtakes-republican-in-democrat-dominated-california/ Democrats should study the examples and learn, rather than repeat the mistakes in just slightly different terms. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/04/opinion/george-hw-bush-obituary.html All our progress depends on ordinary sinners rising above their weaknesses. We shouldn't forget their progress nor their weaknesses, but honestly account for both. http://www.political-scrapbook.net/non-political.html#famous == More on these topics - http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#registration http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ == topic theory 1 ===== impact 185 impactrate 0 likeimpress 2 negative 0 posted 2018-12-04 priority 1 ratio 3 react 13 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 10 title Why he's not a Republican any more, and not going to become topic theory wordrate 0 words 142 ID 763031380708050 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/763031380708050 audclicks 10 audreach 7 engaged 9 impress 66 likeclickusers 9 likeimpress 2 likeuimpress 51 likeusers 2 likeuusers 40 matchedotherclicks 10 oimpress 66 oreach 42 posted "12/04/2018 11:53:13 AM" postotherclicks 7 reach 42 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link ========== Motivating the dark side of politics - shameless ego - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/26/opinion/trump-supporters-bill-white-bryan-eure.html shameless greed - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/26/opinion/climate-change-denial-republican.html == topic theory ===== impact 42 impactrate 0 likeimpress 7 negative 0 posted 2018-11-26 ratio 4 react 26 reactrate 0 shares 2 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 17 title Motivating the dark side of politics - topic theory wordrate 0 words 16 ID 758450304499491 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/758450304499491 audclicks 17 audreach 10 engaged 16 impress 147 likeclickusers 14 likeimpress 7 likeuimpress 95 likeusers 7 likeuusers 76 matchedlinkclicks 9 matchedotherclicks 8 oimpress 147 oreach 113 posted "11/26/2018 09:13:08 PM" postlinkclicks 9 postotherclicks 4 reach 113 sharesimpress 2 sharesusers 2 type Link ========== Why the suburbs flip back and forth https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/26/upshot/suburbs-changing-midterms-democrats-hopes.html == topic theory ===== impact 1 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2018-11-26 ratio 21 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title Why the suburbs flip back and forth topic theory wordrate 0 words 10 ID 758446361166552 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/758446361166552 audclicks 1 audreach 1 engaged 1 impress 32 likeclickusers 1 likeuimpress 23 likeuusers 20 matchedotherclicks 1 oimpress 32 oreach 21 posted "11/26/2018 09:07:09 PM" postotherclicks 1 reach 21 type Link ========== Recovery from populist authoritarianism is difficult. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/11/16/feature/unfixable-several-nations-have-tried-to-restore-democracy-after-populist-strongmen-it-was-never-the-same So let's avoid going there. == topic theory ===== comments 4 impact 140 impactrate 0 likeimpress 16 negative 0 posted 2018-11-20 ratio 3 react 100 reactrate 0 shares 7 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 73 title Recovery from populist authoritarianism is difficult. topic theory wordrate 0 words 14 ID 754362911574897 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/754362911574897 audclicks 73 audreach 38 commentsimpress 4 commentsusers 2 engaged 47 impress 471 likeclickusers 19 likeimpress 16 likeuimpress 113 likeusers 16 likeuusers 90 matchedlinkclicks 19 matchedotherclicks 54 oimpress 471 oreach 373 posted "11/20/2018 03:48:25 PM" postlinkclicks 15 postotherclicks 29 reach 373 sharesimpress 7 sharesusers 7 type Link ========== Is there any inherent order to history? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/opinion/how-would-you-draw-history.html Or is it just random motion on a large scale? Will it survive the democratization of technology? http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ == topic theory ===== comments 1 impact 8 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 0 posted 2018-11-19 ratio 8 react 3 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title Is there any inherent order to history? topic theory wordrate 0 words 27 ID 753843638293491 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/753843638293491 audclicks 1 audreach 1 commentsimpress 1 commentsusers 1 engaged 2 impress 43 likeclickusers 2 likeimpress 1 likeuimpress 28 likeusers 1 likeuusers 22 matchedotherclicks 1 oimpress 43 oreach 24 posted "11/19/2018 04:55:25 PM" postotherclicks 1 reach 24 type Link ========== Protocols of the elders of cultural marxism Giving ancient bad ideas a new name doesn't make them any better. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/opinion/cultural-marxism-anti-semitism.html Imagining vast complicated mysterious conspiracies is always a good way to avoid taking responsibility for one's own blunders. == topic theory ===== hide 1 impact 44 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 1 posted 2018-11-13 ratio 3 react 11 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 8 title Protocols of the elders of cultural marxism topic theory wordrate 0 words 40 ID 749859325358589 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/749859325358589 audclicks 8 audreach 3 engaged 3 hideclicks 1 hideclicksusers 1 impress 57 likeclickusers 3 likeimpress 1 likeuimpress 38 likeusers 1 likeuusers 30 matchedotherclicks 8 negclicks 1 negusers 1 oimpress 57 oreach 36 posted "11/13/2018 05:51:03 AM" postotherclicks 3 reach 36 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link ========== How come elitists always end up in charge? https://www.cheatsheet.com/money-career/drain-swamp-richest-members-trump-administration.html The end state of most political revolutions ends up about the same as before - if the people are lucky. Unlucky, they end up worse off. At the end, there is always an elite running things. Why is that? One possible explanation is that being intensely interested in politics is not normal. Most people can think of more gratifying ways to spend their lives. Who wants to be a politician? Who wants their child to grow up to be a politician? 50 years ago, polls showed that most American women would like it if their sons became President, but most American women would not like it if their sons became politicians. Those moms were unclear on the concept of the President's jobs. Part of it is to be the biggest and baddest dog in his political pack, in order to direct the insane ambitions of his allies. If you can't do that, you won't become President, or won't be for long. But most people have a saturation level for political input, and eventually tune out of continuous revolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution So the people that end up running the show are the people that find running the show interesting. That's automatically an elite. A small community of subsistence farmers without too much spread in wealth and other power can govern itself. Everybody understands all the issues about equally well. Direct democracy has a chance of working, though many citizens hate the endless boring meetings. Jefferson was opposed to Hamilton's industrialization schemes because he feared it would be the end of democracy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffersonian_democracy In a complicated technological society, nobody understands all the issues well, and many people don't understand any of the issues at all, and decisions have to be delegated to people that do understand or at least pretend to. Nobody has figured out how to manage something without understanding it. https://govleaders.org/rickover.htm So there are elite bureaucracies. Does anybody think that an anonymous Wall Street bureaucrat will consistently make better decisions for you than an anonymous Washington DC bureaucrat? But that's the Trumpist proposition - deregulate to unleash the power of the billionaires to make your life better. You know, the kinds of guys that run cable companies, cell phone companies, airlines, oil, gas, and coal companies, big banks, big drug companies, wall street brokerages, and of course, real estate speculators. That'll show those elites how we drain the swamp! ===== comments 4 hide 1 impact 1980 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 1 posted 2018-11-01 ratio 1 react 49 reactrate 0 shares 5 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 38 title How come elitists always end up in charge? topic theory wordrate 0 words 404 ID 743098949367960 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/743098949367960 audclicks 38 audreach 11 commentsimpress 4 commentsusers 3 engaged 12 hideclicks 1 hideclicksusers 1 impress 132 likeclickusers 12 likeimpress 1 likeuimpress 67 likeusers 1 likeuusers 50 matchedlinkclicks 3 matchedotherclicks 35 negclicks 1 negusers 1 oimpress 132 oreach 85 posted "11/01/2018 04:26:05 PM" postlinkclicks 2 postotherclicks 11 reach 85 sharesimpress 5 sharesusers 2 type Link ========== Conversion of a party of ideas to a cult of personality - America was founded on ideas rather than personalities. Traditional Republicans who think of themselves as part of the party of Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt should think about what it means when a party of ideas becomes a personality cult - which is the tendency of populist and fascist movements. They might ask how it worked out for others - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_R%C3%B6hm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Bannon They all were fired, not for their ideology, but because they were potential popularity threats to Dear Fearless Leader. Their ideology didn't save them. The Republican Party has become the Trumpist Party with no fixed ideology but the whims and prejudices of the leader, who owes nothing to the past or to the future, but mutually supports and abets other personality cults all over the world. Don't like it? The 2018 election is a national referendum on ideas vs personality cults. For this one specific moment in history, voters interested in ideas need to vote for ideas and against personality cults. That means in almost every instance, a vote for Republicans, Libertarians, Greens, independents, or staying home because it doesn't matter - is a vote for personality cults. An astonishing number of House and even Senate seats and Governorships are too close too call this year - meaning individual votes count as never before. In almost every instance, at this specific moment, the only effective vote against personality cults is to vote Democratic. As for the future, there are a lot of structural reforms needed - getting dark money out of politics, encouraging voter registration and turnout instead of suppressing, ending gerrymandering, adopting ranked-choice voting and multi-member districts, changing the way Congress runs itself - that will increase voter choices by making independent and ideological candidates more feasible. https://www.fairvote.org/ https://www.nolabels.org/ https://www.uniteamerica.org/ http://www.americanpromise.net/ But those efforts will take years to come to fruition. http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#registration http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses ===== impact 371 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 0 posted 2018-10-27 ratio 3 react 12 reactrate 0 shares 2 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 9 title Conversion of a party of ideas to a cult of personality - topic theory wordrate 0 words 309 ID 740120936332428 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/740120936332428 audclicks 9 audreach 7 engaged 7 impress 71 likeclickusers 7 likeimpress 1 likeuimpress 38 likeusers 1 likeuusers 28 matchedotherclicks 9 oimpress 71 oreach 39 posted "10/27/2018 07:25:55 AM" postotherclicks 7 reach 39 sharesimpress 2 sharesusers 2 type Link ========== Do you prefer a dangerous freedom to peaceful slavery? https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/oct/11/could-populism-actually-be-good-for-democracy ===== negative 0 posted 2018-10-11 priority 1 rate 7 title Do you prefer a dangerous freedom to peaceful slavery? topic theory words 9 title Do you prefer a dangerous freedom to peaceful slavery? ID 731945077150014 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/731945077150014 type Link posted "10/11/2018 07:54:38 PM" reach 25 oreach 25 impress 56 oimpress 56 likeuimpress 30 likeuusers 21 ========== grievance academics, grievance politics https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-do-the-kavanaugh-confirmation-and-the-sokal-squared-hoax-have-in-common/2018/10/10/f7efabf8-ccc6-11e8-a3e6-44daa3d35ede_story.html ===== impact 4 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2018-10-10 ratio 5 react 9 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 8 title grievance academics, grievance politics topic theory wordrate 0 words 4 ID 731272343883954 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/731272343883954 audclicks 8 audreach 5 engaged 5 impress 75 likeclickusers 4 likeuimpress 46 likeuusers 35 matchedlinkclicks 4 matchedotherclicks 4 oimpress 75 oreach 48 posted "10/10/2018 09:36:00 PM" postlinkclicks 4 postotherclicks 2 reach 48 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link ========== The corrosion of conservatism https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/10/destroy-the-republican-party-max-boot-calls-for-a-clean-start/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/10/08/the-dark-side-of-american-conservatism-has-taken-over/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/10/10/an-update-on-the-nevertrump-movement/ It's actually older than Nixon's Southern Strategy. The Democrats traded the racists to the Republicans in 1964 in return, one supposes, for a future draft pick. LBJ got the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965 ( but see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelby_County_v._Holder ) The Republicans got Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms, Albert Watson, and their supporters and, in the fullness of time, they've gotten David Duke, Richard Spencer, Alex Jones, and DonaldTrump. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Senators_who_switched_parties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Representatives_who_switched_parties == http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ ===== comments 1 impact 108 impactrate 0 likeimpress 5 negative 0 posted 2018-10-10 priority 1 ratio 4 react 15 reactrate 0 shares 3 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 6 title The corrosion of conservatism topic theory wordrate 0 words 72 ID 731265313884657 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/731265313884657 audclicks 6 audreach 4 commentsimpress 1 commentsusers 1 engaged 9 impress 101 likeclickusers 7 likeimpress 5 likeuimpress 57 likeusers 5 likeuusers 47 matchedlinkclicks 1 matchedotherclicks 5 oimpress 101 oreach 69 posted "10/10/2018 09:10:21 PM" postlinkclicks 1 postotherclicks 4 reach 69 sharesimpress 3 sharesusers 3 type Link ========== Extremes rush in where centrists fear to tread https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/brexit-isnt-the-only-shock-hanging-over-britain/2018/10/09/5943b230-cbfc-11e8-a3e6-44daa3d35ede_story.html ===== impact 2 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 0 posted 2018-10-10 ratio 8 react 3 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2 title Extremes rush in where centrists fear to tread topic theory wordrate 0 words 8 ID 731080253903163 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/731080253903163 audclicks 2 audreach 2 engaged 2 impress 47 likeclickusers 2 likeimpress 1 likeuimpress 27 likeusers 1 likeuusers 22 matchedlinkclicks 1 matchedotherclicks 1 oimpress 47 oreach 26 posted "10/10/2018 11:27:32 AM" postlinkclicks 1 postotherclicks 1 reach 26 type Link ========== Remember Impeach Earl Warren! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-left-shouldnt-assail-the-supreme-courts-legitimacy/2018/10/09/be3ca22e-cc0a-11e8-a360-85875bac0b1f_story.html ===== comments 2 impact 10 impactrate 0 likeimpress 7 negative 0 posted 2018-10-10 ratio 4 react 25 reactrate 0 shares 2 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 14 title Remember Impeach Earl Warren! topic theory wordrate 0 words 4 ID 731079070569948 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/731079070569948 audclicks 14 audreach 10 commentsimpress 2 commentsusers 2 engaged 15 impress 135 likeclickusers 12 likeimpress 7 likeuimpress 81 likeusers 7 likeuusers 69 matchedlinkclicks 5 matchedotherclicks 9 oimpress 135 oreach 100 posted "10/10/2018 11:23:52 AM" postlinkclicks 4 postotherclicks 7 reach 100 sharesimpress 2 sharesusers 2 type Link ========== The unvarnished tribalization of national life https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/opinion/kavanaugh-hearing-partisan-national-disgrace.html Bipartisan alienation might be a cause or a symptom - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/upshot/estranged-america-trump-polarization.html ===== comments 1 hide 1 impact 320 impactrate 0 likeimpress 17 negative 1 posted 2018-10-04 ratio 2 react 200 reactrate 0 shares 8 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 173 title The unvarnished tribalization of national life topic theory wordrate 0 words 16 ID 728020507542471 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/728020507542471 audclicks 173 audreach 32 commentsimpress 1 commentsusers 1 engaged 41 hideclicks 1 hideclicksusers 1 impress 587 likeclickusers 24 likeimpress 17 likeuimpress 138 likeusers 17 likeuusers 103 matchedlinkclicks 16 matchedotherclicks 157 negclicks 1 negusers 1 oimpress 587 oreach 444 posted "10/04/2018 10:10:44 PM" postlinkclicks 14 postotherclicks 18 reach 444 sharesimpress 8 sharesusers 7 type Link ========== Do we need stronger parties? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/our-political-parties-arent-too-powerful-theyre-not-powerful-enough/2018/10/02/fac1f36c-c673-11e8-9b1c-a90f1daae309_story.html Does this traditional historical analysis still hold in the age of social media? http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#bipartisanship == Can a parallel be drawn with television? At first, there were just a few television channels possible, and a Fairness Doctrine governed them - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine It was enacted in the Truman administration and abolished in the Reagan administration, as the proliferation of hundreds and thousands of cable channels seemed to insure that every point of view would be heard. And indeed it did - every viewpoint would be heard, but only by those who already espoused it - the bubble effect. There was no longer anything forcing broadcasters or audiences to confront more than one point of view on anything. More recently, social media reinforced the same trends. == So the argument against third parties and independents goes - having two major parties forces each to encompass a wider range of ideologies than is typically the case in the rest of the world. Thus, although it's not in the Constitution, the two-party system is as important to the way American democracy as anything in the Constitution, and the entire structure of American politics is built to reinforce it, above all the winner-take-all electoral votes rules in 48 of the 50 states. http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#electoral%20college The counter-argument is that the major parties have become captive to their most partisan wings, who dominate primary elections and caucuses, and so have become smaller and smaller tents - in effect, two minor parties that have captured the institutional mechanisms intended for major parties. ===== comments 1 impact 254 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2018-10-02 ratio 4 react 10 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 9 title Do we need stronger parties? topic theory wordrate 0 words 254 ID 726764457668076 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/726764457668076 audclicks 9 audreach 6 commentsimpress 1 commentsusers 1 engaged 6 impress 62 likeclickusers 6 likeuimpress 43 likeuusers 39 matchedotherclicks 9 oimpress 62 oreach 41 posted "10/02/2018 07:15:12 PM" postotherclicks 6 reach 41 type Link ========== We aren’t what we own. We’re what we disown. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/opinion/trumps-economy-job-approval.html You mean it's NOT the economy? In 2018, it's easy to imagine there are 78,000 angry conservative women and minorities in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, who have changed their minds since they voted for Trump in 2016. Especially after this "riff that has been dreaded by White House and Senate aides" - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-mocks-kavanaugh-accuser-christine-blasey-ford/2018/10/02/25f6f8aa-c662-11e8-9b1c-a90f1daae309_story.html And now for an opposing point of view - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/opinion/the-american-civil-war-part-ii.html ===== impact 168 impactrate 0 likeimpress 11 negative 0 posted 2018-10-02 ratio 2 react 24 reactrate 0 shares 2 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 11 title We aren’t what we own. We’re what we disown. topic theory wordrate 0 words 70 ID 726723771005478 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/726723771005478 audclicks 11 audreach 9 engaged 18 impress 98 likeclickusers 17 likeimpress 11 likeuimpress 65 likeusers 11 likeuusers 52 matchedlinkclicks 1 matchedotherclicks 10 oimpress 98 oreach 65 posted "10/02/2018 05:10:08 PM" postlinkclicks 1 postotherclicks 8 reach 65 sharesimpress 2 sharesusers 2 type Link ========== Prostitution always diminishes both parties Especially when the parties are church and state. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/as-jesus-said-nice-guys-finish-last/2018/10/01/22b954ea-c599-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html Jesus called his followers to act to against worldly need and injustice, but not to become so worldly as to be serving two masters. A difficult balance to strike. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/sunday/christians-politics-belief.html ===== impact 50 impactrate 0 likeimpress 7 negative 0 posted 2018-10-02 ratio 8 react 12 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 4 title Prostitution always diminishes both parties topic theory wordrate 0 words 42 ID 726693681008487 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/726693681008487 audclicks 4 audreach 3 engaged 7 impress 136 likeclickusers 7 likeimpress 7 likeuimpress 81 likeusers 7 likeuusers 69 matchedotherclicks 4 oimpress 136 oreach 99 posted "10/02/2018 03:24:52 PM" postotherclicks 3 reach 99 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link ========== The Medium-sized Lie - the platform for subverting democracy - from Dreyfus to Smolensk to Birtherism https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/poland-polarization/568324/ But on a more positive note - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/sunday/trump-democracy-history.html ===== comments 1 impact 315 impactrate 0 likeimpress 8 negative 0 posted 2018-09-30 priority 1 ratio 0 react 137 reactrate 0 shares 3 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 125 title The Medium-sized Lie - the platform for subverting topic theory wordrate 0 words 23 ID 725625477781974 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/725625477781974 audclicks 125 audreach 13 commentsimpress 1 commentsusers 1 engaged 18 impress 183 likeclickusers 15 likeimpress 8 likeuimpress 106 likeusers 8 likeuusers 82 matchedlinkclicks 6 matchedotherclicks 119 oimpress 183 oreach 118 posted "09/30/2018 11:47:30 AM" postlinkclicks 6 postotherclicks 7 reach 118 sharesimpress 3 sharesusers 3 type Link ========== Malleable ideology https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/world/asia/china-maoists-xi-protests.html In China as in America, it seems that political ideology can be modified and even reversed 180 degrees to suit the needs of the ruling class. http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses In Russia, the reversal is more obvious. International socialism defeated national socialism in 1943, but national socialism had the last laugh in 2000. KGB agents hardly noticed any change. ===== impact 34 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 0 posted 2018-09-28 ratio 6 react 6 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 5 title Malleable ideology topic theory wordrate 0 words 57 ID 724876934523495 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/724876934523495 audclicks 5 audreach 5 engaged 6 impress 63 likeclickusers 6 likeimpress 1 likeuimpress 42 likeusers 1 likeuusers 37 matchedlinkclicks 1 matchedotherclicks 4 oimpress 63 oreach 39 posted "09/28/2018 07:49:45 PM" postlinkclicks 1 postotherclicks 4 reach 39 type Link ========== Portfolio theory applied to political campaign contributions https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/want-your-campaign-funding-to-be-effective-diversify/2018/09/27/02c395a8-b787-11e8-a7b5-adaaa5b2a57f_story.html ===== hide 1 impact 5 impactrate 0 likeimpress 2 negative 1 posted 2018-09-28 priority 1 ratio 6 react 7 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 4 title Portfolio theory applied to political campaign topic theory wordrate 0 words 7 ID 724833877861134 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/724833877861134 audclicks 4 audreach 3 engaged 4 hideclicks 1 hideclicksusers 1 impress 67 likeclickusers 4 likeimpress 2 likeuimpress 51 likeusers 2 likeuusers 44 matchedlinkclicks 1 matchedotherclicks 3 negclicks 1 negusers 1 oimpress 67 oreach 48 posted "09/28/2018 05:27:35 PM" postlinkclicks 1 postotherclicks 2 reach 48 type Link ========== Real leadership https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/opinion/macron-france-unpopular-president.html Telling people what they need to hear, instead of what they want to hear, is as unpopular in France as it is here. So while some leaders care about the judgment of history, others couldn't care less - "Après moi, le déluge." ===== impact 172 impactrate 0 likeimpress 7 negative 0 posted 2018-09-27 ratio 2 react 39 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 31 title Real leadership topic theory wordrate 0 words 44 ID 724259084585280 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/724259084585280 audclicks 31 audreach 9 engaged 13 impress 110 likeclickusers 11 likeimpress 7 likeuimpress 70 likeusers 7 likeuusers 62 matchedlinkclicks 5 matchedotherclicks 26 oimpress 110 oreach 80 posted "09/27/2018 09:00:33 AM" postlinkclicks 5 postotherclicks 8 reach 80 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link ========== Fail better! https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/opinion/western-democracy-trump-challenges.html ===== negative 0 posted 2018-09-21 rate 5 title Fail better! topic theory words 2 title Fail better! ID 721075194903669 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/721075194903669 type Link posted "09/21/2018 06:00:37 AM" reach 25 oreach 25 impress 43 oimpress 43 likeuimpress 25 likeuusers 22 ========== Rising income inequality eventually defeats equal opportunity https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/technology/bezos-amazon-rich-concentration Concentration of power is inherently counter to equal opportunity. One of government's jobs is to counteract that, lest we create a hereditary nobility. But concentration of power in government is not without its own problems. http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#liberty%20and%20equality.html ===== impact 46 impactrate 0 likeimpress 2 negative 0 posted 2018-09-20 priority 1 ratio 6 react 11 reactrate 0 shares 4 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 5 title Rising income inequality eventually defeats equal topic theory wordrate 0 words 42 ID 720614531616402 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/720614531616402 audclicks 5 audreach 4 engaged 6 impress 96 likeclickusers 5 likeimpress 2 likeuimpress 39 likeusers 2 likeuusers 31 matchedotherclicks 5 oimpress 96 oreach 66 posted "09/20/2018 07:41:28 AM" postotherclicks 4 reach 66 sharesimpress 4 sharesusers 3 type Link ========== Differences between religious and secular conservatives https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/opinion/liberalism-religious-right.html ===== impact 4 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2018-09-20 ratio 8 react 7 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 6 title Differences between religious and secular conservatives topic theory wordrate 0 words 6 ID 720608131617042 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/720608131617042 audclicks 6 audreach 2 engaged 2 impress 84 likeclickusers 2 likeuimpress 48 likeuusers 39 matchedlinkclicks 2 matchedotherclicks 4 oimpress 84 oreach 59 posted "09/20/2018 07:29:45 AM" postlinkclicks 1 postotherclicks 2 reach 59 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link ========== Schools for gifted, income inequality, and the Democratic coalition https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/opinion/democrats-inequality-policy-midterms.html ===== impact 5 impactrate 0 likeimpress 2 negative 0 posted 2018-09-20 ratio 7 react 5 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 3 title Schools for gifted, income inequality, and the Democratic topic theory wordrate 0 words 9 ID 720606284950560 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/720606284950560 audclicks 3 audreach 1 engaged 3 impress 60 likeclickusers 3 likeimpress 2 likeuimpress 43 likeusers 2 likeuusers 35 matchedotherclicks 3 oimpress 60 oreach 39 posted "09/20/2018 07:24:32 AM" postotherclicks 1 reach 39 type Link ========== What made America great? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/18/opinion/immigration-trump-children-american-empire.html It wasn't tariffs. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/opinion/sunday/trump-china-america-first.html O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! O beautiful for pilgrim feet, Whose stern, impassioned stress A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the wilderness! America! America! God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law! O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved And mercy more than life! America! America! May God thy gold refine, Till all success be nobleness, And every gain divine! O beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea! http://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#anthem === "Confirm thy soul in self-control" Self-control is an essential prerequisite even of Christian liberty - All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. "Thy liberty in law" But political liberty has to be exercised within the bounds of political law. ===== comments 10 hide 1 impact 1875 impactrate 0 likeimpress 13 negative 1 posted 2018-09-13 priority 1 ratio 3 react 91 reactrate 0 shares 14 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 53 title What made America great? topic theory wordrate 0 words 206 ID 716970061980849 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/716970061980849 audclicks 53 audreach 24 commentsimpress 10 commentsusers 6 engaged 39 hideclicks 1 hideclicksusers 1 impress 396 likeclickusers 23 likeimpress 13 likeuimpress 126 likeusers 13 likeuusers 100 matchedlinkclicks 7 matchedotherclicks 46 negclicks 1 negusers 1 oimpress 396 oreach 283 posted "09/13/2018 04:39:28 PM" postlinkclicks 7 postotherclicks 20 reach 283 sharesimpress 14 sharesusers 14 type Link ========== Why democracies have so much trouble with future crises https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-we-dont-prepare-for-the-future/2018/09/09/cb91cc34-b2c3-11e8-aed9-001309990777_story.html Politicians who refuse to acknowledge future threats and prescribe present defenses are usually more popular than those more far-sighted. ===== impact 31 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 0 posted 2018-09-10 ratio 5 react 11 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 9 title Why democracies have so much trouble with future crises topic theory wordrate 0 words 28 ID 715023542175501 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/715023542175501 audclicks 9 audreach 3 engaged 3 impress 103 likeclickusers 3 likeimpress 1 likeuimpress 61 likeusers 1 likeuusers 53 matchedlinkclicks 1 matchedotherclicks 8 oimpress 103 oreach 62 posted "09/10/2018 06:43:05 AM" postlinkclicks 1 postotherclicks 2 reach 62 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link ========== Look what the wind has blown back Southern feudalism wasn't gone with the wind after all https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/08/27/why-some-white-americans-see-racial-equality-as-oppression/ Why DID poor free whites fight for slaveholders? http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses ===== impact 41 impactrate 0 likeimpress 2 negative 0 posted 2018-08-27 ratio 4 react 17 reactrate 0 shares 2 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 13 title Look what the wind has blown back topic theory wordrate 0 words 24 ID 707434256267763 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/707434256267763 audclicks 13 audreach 10 engaged 10 impress 122 likeclickusers 8 likeimpress 2 likeuimpress 80 likeusers 2 likeuusers 54 matchedlinkclicks 4 matchedotherclicks 9 oimpress 122 oreach 81 posted "08/27/2018 06:08:59 PM" postlinkclicks 4 postotherclicks 7 reach 81 sharesimpress 2 sharesusers 2 type Link ========== Rising income inequality is dangerous even when all incomes are rising Explaining the appeal of Trump and Sanders https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/opinion/happiness-inequality-prosperity-.html ===== impact 13 impactrate 0 likeimpress 2 negative 0 posted 2018-08-22 ratio 9 react 7 reactrate 0 shares 2 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 3 title Rising income inequality is dangerous even when all incomes topic theory wordrate 0 words 18 ID 702955963382259 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/702955963382259 audclicks 3 audreach 2 engaged 5 impress 106 likeclickusers 5 likeimpress 2 likeuimpress 83 likeusers 2 likeuusers 47 matchedotherclicks 3 oimpress 106 oreach 64 posted "08/22/2018 07:50:56 AM" postotherclicks 2 reach 64 sharesimpress 2 sharesusers 2 type Link ========== Trust-busting was popularized by a Republican, Theodore Roosevelt https://ehistory.osu.edu/exhibitions/1912/trusts/roosevel But when the Republicans abandoned Roosevelt, they abandoned anti-trust to the Democrats and, later, the Europeans - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/08/17/america-first-2/ Concentrations of power are sooner or later inimical to liberty and equality. But concentration of power only bothers Trumpists when it's not concentrated in THEIR hands. http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#liberty%20and%20equality ===== impact 15 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2018-08-17 ratio 12 react 3 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2 title Trust-busting was popularized by a Republican, Theodore topic theory wordrate 0 words 51 ID 697472130597309 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/697472130597309 audclicks 2 audreach 1 engaged 1 impress 48 likeclickusers 1 likeuimpress 36 likeuusers 27 matchedotherclicks 2 oimpress 48 oreach 37 posted "08/17/2018 09:23:16 AM" postotherclicks 1 reach 37 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link ========== The future of the earth - it's ultimately about struggle between the haves and have-nots. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/11/opinion/sunday/science-people-environment-earth.html Science can inform political decisions, but the decisions will be made with or without science. http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ ===== impact 27 impactrate 0 likeimpress 3 negative 0 posted 2018-08-12 ratio 6 react 9 reactrate 0 shares 3 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 3 title The future of the earth - it's ultimately about struggle topic theory wordrate 0 words 30 ID 692126204465235 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/692126204465235 audclicks 3 audreach 3 engaged 6 impress 111 likeclickusers 6 likeimpress 3 likeuimpress 83 likeusers 3 likeuusers 42 matchedotherclicks 3 oimpress 111 oreach 59 posted "08/12/2018 01:13:47 PM" postotherclicks 3 reach 59 sharesimpress 3 sharesusers 2 type Link ========== Social democracy or democratic socialism? https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/democratic-socialists-are-conquering-the-left-but-do-they-believe-in-democracy/2018/08/10/5bf58392-9b90-11e8-b60b-1c897f17e185_story.html American history - and that of many other countries - suggests that evolutionary change is much more politically and economically feasible than revolutionary. http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative ===== comments 3 hideall 1 impact 67 impactrate 0 likeimpress 6 negative 1 posted 2018-08-12 ratio 4 react 24 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 13 title Social democracy or democratic socialism? topic theory wordrate 0 words 28 ID 691877844490071 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/691877844490071 audclicks 13 audreach 11 commentsimpress 3 commentsusers 3 engaged 15 hideallclicks 1 hideallclicksusers 1 impress 169 likeclickusers 14 likeimpress 6 likeuimpress 135 likeusers 6 likeuusers 97 matchedlinkclicks 2 matchedotherclicks 11 negclicks 1 negusers 1 oimpress 169 oreach 114 posted "08/12/2018 07:59:37 AM" postlinkclicks 2 postotherclicks 9 reach 114 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link ========== Ranked choice voting gaining traction Ranked choice (preferential) voting and multimember districts enable legislations to better reflect the voting population https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/07/12/american-democracys-built-in-bias-towards-rural-republicans https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/opinion/voting-reform-partisanship-congress.html https://fairvote.app.box.com/s/cy7zovme65kfkuszaqof97jwu7oy9xk1 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential ===== impact 40 impactrate 0 likeimpress 5 negative 0 posted 2018-08-02 ratio 4 react 20 reactrate 0 shares 3 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 12 title Ranked choice voting gaining traction topic theory wordrate 0 words 20 ID 681372342207288 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/681372342207288 audclicks 12 audreach 9 engaged 11 impress 105 likeclickusers 10 likeimpress 5 likeuimpress 88 likeusers 5 likeuusers 68 matchedlinkclicks 2 matchedotherclicks 10 oimpress 105 oreach 81 posted "08/02/2018 03:40:41 PM" postlinkclicks 2 postotherclicks 8 reach 81 sharesimpress 3 sharesusers 3 type Link ========== Causes and effects of demographic change https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/30/17505406/trump-obama-race-politics-immigration It affects how people think about everything else. ===== hideall 1 impact 15 impactrate 0 likeimpress 2 negative 1 posted 2018-08-01 ratio 4 react 11 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 8 title Causes and effects of demographic change topic theory wordrate 0 words 14 ID 680381315639724 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/680381315639724 audclicks 8 audreach 4 engaged 6 hideallclicks 1 hideallclicksusers 1 impress 61 likeclickusers 6 likeimpress 2 likeuimpress 60 likeusers 2 likeuusers 46 matchedlinkclicks 3 matchedotherclicks 5 negclicks 1 negusers 1 oimpress 61 oreach 47 posted "08/01/2018 05:07:20 PM" postlinkclicks 3 postotherclicks 3 reach 47 type Link ========== Where your ancestors came from has a lot to do with how you vote today https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/30/opinion/urban-rural-united-states-regions-midterms.html Was their outlook community-oriented or individual-oriented? ===== comments 1 impact 61 impactrate 0 likeimpress 5 negative 0 posted 2018-07-30 ratio 3 react 29 reactrate 0 shares 2 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 21 title Where your ancestors came from has a lot to do with how topic theory wordrate 0 words 21 ID 677736672570855 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/677736672570855 audclicks 21 audreach 13 commentsimpress 1 commentsusers 1 engaged 16 impress 138 likeclickusers 11 likeimpress 5 likeuimpress 94 likeusers 5 likeuusers 72 matchedlinkclicks 11 matchedotherclicks 10 oimpress 138 oreach 101 posted "07/30/2018 07:11:32 AM" postlinkclicks 10 postotherclicks 6 reach 101 sharesimpress 2 sharesusers 2 type Link ========== I don't have to listen to what you say because I have already made up my mind that you must be wrong https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/28/opinion/sunday/republicans-climate-change.html Even if I would agree with what you say if my friends said it! One might think that would make it easier for independent candidates to gain traction, but it doesn't seem to work that way most of the time. https://www.nolabels.org/ https://www.uniteamerica.org/ http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative ===== impact 12 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2018-07-29 ratio 23 react 2 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2 title I don't have to listen to what you say because I have topic theory wordrate 0 words 62 ID 677255745952281 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/677255745952281 audclicks 2 audreach 2 engaged 2 impress 79 likeclickusers 2 likeuimpress 77 likeuusers 43 matchedotherclicks 2 oimpress 79 oreach 46 posted "07/29/2018 08:01:36 PM" postotherclicks 2 reach 46 type Link ========== Truth decay in the post-shame world Trump is a salesman - tells the truth about the dreams and fears of his audience of prospects. They've learned not to worry whether objective factual truth exists. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2018/07/13/feature/can-truth-survive-this-president-an-honest-investigation/ ===== comments 1 hide 1 impact 61 impactrate 0 likeimpress 3 negative 1 posted 2018-07-15 ratio 7 react 18 reactrate 0 shares 4 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 9 title Truth decay in the post-shame world topic theory wordrate 0 words 34 ID 662436497434206 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/662436497434206 audclicks 9 audreach 5 commentsimpress 1 commentsusers 1 engaged 8 hideclicks 1 hideclicksusers 1 impress 178 likeclickusers 7 likeimpress 3 likeuimpress 109 likeusers 3 likeuusers 72 matchedotherclicks 9 negclicks 1 negusers 1 oimpress 178 oreach 134 posted "07/15/2018 01:54:01 PM" postotherclicks 5 reach 134 sharesimpress 4 sharesusers 4 type Link ========== Time to Depopularize "Populist" ? Roger Cohen argues that "populism" has lost all usefulness for describing political philosophies - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/opinion/populism-language-meaning.html It seems like the essence of the populist appeal in various times and places is that the populist leader embodies the will of the majority, the good people, against a powerful exploitative minority, the bad people. To some extent, that applies to all kinds of political movements, which is why populists can be left, right, or center. What they have in common is a tendency to replace one exploitative minority with another. Eventually it always comes down to a minority of people, that have an ongoing interest in politics, getting more power over a majority of people, that would rather not think about politics on an ongoing basis. Even "continuous revolution" models that attempt to avoid institutionalizing any elite eventually institutionalize the revolutionary elite, because the majority of the people do not really like continuous revolutionary disruption. But revolutionary elites are good at disruption, not creation of value for the majority. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution The single governing principle of "majority rule" is best embodied in a lynch mob. The essence of democracy is recognition and preservation of minority rights - some "endowed by their Creator" and others enshrined in fundamental law like the Constitution. ===== impact 105 impactrate 0 likeimpress 2 negative 0 posted 2018-07-14 ratio 8 react 5 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 3 title Time to Depopularize "Populist" ? topic theory wordrate 0 words 210 ID 661106587567197 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/661106587567197 audclicks 3 audreach 2 engaged 3 impress 69 likeclickusers 3 likeimpress 2 likeuimpress 69 likeusers 2 likeuusers 41 matchedlinkclicks 1 matchedotherclicks 2 oimpress 69 oreach 41 posted "07/14/2018 06:32:43 AM" postlinkclicks 1 postotherclicks 1 reach 41 type Link ========== A former Republican writes about the World Cup and America's place in the world https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/i-hardly-questioned-american-exceptionalism-soccer-changed-that/2018/07/11/95ec50fa-8545-11e8-9e80-403a221946a7_story.html ===== impact 6 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 0 posted 2018-07-11 ratio 13 react 4 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 3 title A former Republican writes about the World Cup and topic theory wordrate 0 words 14 ID 658721647805691 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/658721647805691 audclicks 3 audreach 3 engaged 4 impress 88 likeclickusers 3 likeimpress 1 likeuimpress 85 likeusers 1 likeuusers 51 matchedlinkclicks 3 oimpress 88 oreach 52 posted "07/11/2018 06:31:33 PM" postlinkclicks 3 reach 52 type Link ========== Time out! It's how one deals with childish behavior in children https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-country-has-lost-its-mind-its-time-for-some-game-theory/2018/06/12/f8863076-6e77-11e8-bd50-b80389a4e569_story.html ===== negative 0 posted 2018-06-13 rate 2 title Time out! topic theory words 11 ID 632628400415016 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/632628400415016 impress 53 likeuimpress 50 likeuusers 31 oimpress 53 oreach 34 posted "06/13/2018 09:40:54 AM" reach 34 type Link ========== Centrists Are the Most Hostile to Democracy ??? This is an unexpected claim: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/23/opinion/international-world/centrists-democracy.html Could it be that in the methodology of opinion survey, people who are not much interested in politics tend to identify themselves toward the center rather than extremes? Maybe the results would be different if the survey were limited to people active in politics. ===== impact 29 impactrate 0 likeimpress 2 negative 0 posted 2018-05-24 ratio 6 react 5 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 3 title Centrists Are the Most Hostile to Democracy cb1 csv eb1 nmd ntd rmd rtd topic theory wordrate 0 words 57 ID 622643394746850 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/622643394746850 audclicks 3 audreach 2 engaged 4 impress 59 likeclickusers 4 likeimpress 2 likeuimpress 45 likeusers 2 likeuusers 25 matchedlinkclicks 3 oimpress 59 oreach 33 posted "05/24/2018 04:41:10 AM" postlinkclicks 2 reach 33 type Link ========== Deferring difficult decisions - who's to blame? Interest on the US national debt consuming all the GNP is no longer such a distant vague threat. Solutions have been proposed by Simpson and Bowles, but the politicians who created the problem thought that was enough work for one career and decided to leave fixing the problem as a task for the next generation. In a different way, sales tax has been an important part of the funding of local government in California and elsewhere. But who gets the sales tax collected by a huge Amazon distribution center - the county where the center is located or the counties where the products are shipped? It's a specific manifestation of a much larger problem - sales tax (and gasoline tax, for that matter) is increasingly difficult to adapt to modern technologies and the whole funding structure of state and local government probably needs to be re-architected from the ground up, but it's left as a problem for the next generation to solve, because every change in taxation creates winners and losers and the losers kick back harder than the winners. What do you think of politicians who decline to tell the voters what they need to hear about difficult choices - leaders who decline to lead? What do you think of voters who keep electing the same kinds of leaders? For links to references, please see https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/614735045537685 ===== comments 2 hide 1 impact 4916 impactrate 0 likeimpress 66 negative 1 posted 2018-05-20 ratio 5 react 211 reactrate 0 shares 20 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 122 title Deferring difficult decisions - who's to blame? topic theory wordrate 0 words 233 ID 621052314905958 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/621052314905958 audclicks 123 audreach 103 bimpress 1354 blikeimpress 27 blikeusers 20 breach 1221 commentsimpress 2 commentsusers 2 engaged 145 hideclicks 1 hideclicksusers 1 impress 1410 likeclickusers 7 likeimpress 66 likeuimpress 67 likeusers 62 likeuusers 39 matchedlinkclicks 52 matchedotherclicks 70 negclicks 1 negusers 1 oimpress 56 oreach 34 posted "05/20/2018 04:16:19 PM" postlinkclicks 43 postotherclicks 65 reach 1251 sharesimpress 20 type Link budget 20 budgettype Lifetime cadname "Post: ""Title: Deferring difficult decisions - who's to...""" ccleantitle Deferring difficult decisions - who's to cclicksall 242 cclickslink 49 ccpcall 0.08264463 ccpclink 0.40816327 cdelivery rejected cend 2018-06-30 cimpressions 1354 clicksunique 48 conversionrank - cost 0.15625 cpm 14.77104874 creach 1235 cstart 2018-04-01 ctrall 17.87296898 ctrlink 3.6189069423929 ecomments 2 ecpclink 0.40816327 ends 2018-06-03 engagedrank - epagelikes 2 ereact 57 eshares 20 frequency 1.0963562753036 indicator actions:post_engagement qualityrank - results 128 spent 20 ========== Compound interest and the public debt: whatever happened to Simpson and Bowles? Interest on the national debt consuming all the gross national product is no longer such a vague distant possibility: https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/05/george-will-pour-a-scotch-and-read-on-we-may-be-trapped-in-a-debt-spiral/ Compound interest is a form of exponential growth - something that often takes democracies by surprise: http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#exponentials More so when much of that debt is held by foreign nations. Solutions have been proposed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Commission_on_Fiscal_Responsibility_and_Reform but the politicians who created the problem thought that was enough work for one career, and decided to leave fixing the problem as a task for the next generation. http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#bipartisanship ===== negative 0 posted 2018-05-08 rate 0 title Compound interest and the public debt: whatever happened topic theory words 92 ID 615695938774929 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/615695938774929 impress 42 likeuimpress 42 likeuusers 10 oimpress 42 oreach 10 posted "05/08/2018 03:42:07 PM" reach 10 type Link ========== Why Are So Many Democracies Breaking Down? "In many democracies, the roots of breakdown reside in democratic constitutions themselves. Over two-thirds of countries that have transitioned to democracy since World War II have done so under constitutions written by the outgoing authoritarian regime. These constitutions often contain provisions requiring supermajority thresholds for change. " https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/opinion/democracy-authoritarian-constitutions.html Supermajorities can provide the rights of minorities - a good thing right? But what if the minority is the ancien regime holding most of the wealth and power? The US Senate runs most of the time on a supermajority basis - except when it doesn't. Perhaps it would be better if supermajority requirements were prohibited except when required by the constitution. http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#filibuster ===== comments 1 impact 230 impactrate 0 likeimpress 5 negative 0 posted 2018-05-08 ratio 2 react 20 reactrate 0 shares 2 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 12 title Why Are So Many Democracies Breaking Down? topic theory wordrate 0 words 115 ID 615667978777725 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/615667978777725 audclicks 12 audreach 6 commentsimpress 1 commentsusers 1 engaged 8 impress 104 likeclickusers 5 likeimpress 5 likeuimpress 83 likeusers 5 likeuusers 39 matchedlinkclicks 1 matchedotherclicks 11 oimpress 104 oreach 59 posted "05/08/2018 02:06:34 PM" postlinkclicks 1 postotherclicks 6 reach 59 sharesimpress 2 sharesusers 2 type Link ========== Be the future you want the world to become: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/opinion/trump-father-coughlin-roosevelt.html Embracing the dark side of the force does not sound like the right answer: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/05/03/democrats-are-finally-doing-politics-the-way-republicans-do/ But there are signs that's where it's going: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/opinion/future-american-left.html ===== impact 31 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 0 posted 2018-05-03 ratio 4 react 10 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 8 title Be the future you want the world to become: topic theory wordrate 0 words 31 ID 613454078999115 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/613454078999115 audclicks 8 audreach 5 engaged 5 impress 105 likeclickusers 5 likeimpress 1 likeuimpress 101 likeusers 1 likeuusers 42 matchedlinkclicks 2 matchedotherclicks 6 oimpress 105 oreach 47 posted "05/03/2018 05:08:25 PM" postlinkclicks 2 postotherclicks 4 reach 47 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link ========== System rigged by big money Maybe Trump is just the symptom, not the root cause: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-nation-is-mired-in-bitter-impotence/2018/05/02/74decfdc-4e3b-11e8-af46-b1d6dc0d9bfe_story.html Why is there so much political despair on the left and the right when the economy is booming (and probably near a top)? Part of it has to do with how Republicans and now Democrats campaign: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/05/03/democrats-are-finally-doing-politics-the-way-republicans-do/ As this is driven by a couple of factors: Dark big money: http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donations Narrow-casting and single-issue voters and candidates and political structures that enable them to the detriment of bipartisan problem solving: http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#representative%20democracy http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#bipartisanship http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#redistricting http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential ===== comments 1 impact 148 impactrate 0 likeimpress 3 negative 0 posted 2018-05-03 ratio 3 react 18 reactrate 0 shares 2 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 12 title System rigged by big money topic theory wordrate 0 words 82 ID 613338409010682 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/613338409010682 audclicks 12 audreach 8 commentsimpress 1 commentsusers 1 engaged 9 impress 134 likeclickusers 6 likeimpress 3 likeuimpress 86 likeusers 3 likeuusers 38 matchedlinkclicks 3 matchedotherclicks 9 oimpress 134 oreach 70 posted "05/03/2018 10:33:10 AM" postlinkclicks 3 postotherclicks 6 reach 70 sharesimpress 2 sharesusers 2 type Link ========== Karl Marx is 200 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/opinion/karl-marx-at-200-influence.html What is his lasting contribution? http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses ===== impact 3 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2018-04-30 ratio 11 react 3 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 3 title Karl Marx is 200 topic theory wordrate 0 words 9 ID 612053942472462 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/612053942472462 audclicks 3 audreach 3 engaged 3 impress 94 likeclickusers 3 likeuimpress 85 likeuusers 31 matchedlinkclicks 1 matchedotherclicks 2 oimpress 94 oreach 33 posted "04/30/2018 04:20:58 PM" postlinkclicks 1 postotherclicks 2 reach 33 type Link ========== An Unexpected Appreciation of Lawyers - by de Tocqueville https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-best-parts-of-comeys-book-have-nothing-to-do-with-trump/2018/04/19/307df2ae-440f-11e8-bba2-0976a82b05a2_story.html And if they don't teach enough American History in schools, and you don't know who de Tocqueville was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America He was the first European writer to really get what America was and what America was becoming, good and bad. de Tocqueville didn't live long enough to meet Cohn and Cohen; that might have changed his opinion. And as for lawyers - if you ever under criminal investigation - get yourself a good lawyer and follow the expensive advice: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trumps-problem-isnt-that-he-has-bad-lawyers-its-that-hes-a-bad-client/2018/04/19/5bf7d43a-4352-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html ===== comments 1 hide 1 impact 292 impactrate 0 likeimpress 4 negative 1 posted 2018-04-20 ratio 2 react 34 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 27 title An Unexpected Appreciation of Lawyers - by de Tocqueville topic theory wordrate 0 words 86 ID 607519339592589 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/607519339592589 audclicks 27 audreach 18 commentsimpress 1 commentsusers 1 engaged 18 hideclicks 1 hideclicksusers 1 impress 135 likeclickusers 17 likeimpress 4 likeuimpress 121 likeusers 4 likeuusers 65 matchedlinkclicks 7 matchedotherclicks 20 negclicks 1 negusers 1 oimpress 135 oreach 78 posted "04/20/2018 09:46:39 AM" postlinkclicks 6 postotherclicks 14 reach 78 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link ========== Fomenting Division - it's not just the Russians A sixth of the problem is definitely attributable to Russian interference, which is a big story in itself. But five sixths of the problem comes from other sources, probably mostly home-grown and legal, and that's an even bigger story: https://www.wired.com/story/russian-facebook-ads-targeted-us-voters-before-2016-election/ == ABSTRACT: In light of the foreign interference in the 2016 U.S. elections, the present research asks the question of whether the digital media has become the stealth media for anonymous political campaigns. By utilizing a user-based, real-time, digital ad tracking tool, the present research reverse engineers and tracks the groups (Study 1) and the targets (Study 2) of divisive issue campaigns based on 5 million paid ads on Facebook exposed to 9,519 individuals between September 28 and November 8, 2016. The findings reveal groups that did not file reports to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) - nonprofits, astroturf /movement groups, and unidentifiable "suspicious" groups , including foreign entities - ran most of the divisive issue campaigns. One out of six suspicious groups later turned out to be Russian groups. The volume of ads sponsored by non-FEC groups was four times larger than that of FEC-groups. Divisive issue campaigns clearly targeted battleground states, including Pennsylvania and Wisconsin where traditional Democratic strongholds supported Trump by a razor thin margin. The present research asserts that media ecology, the technological features and capacity of digital media, as well as regulatory loopholes created by Citizens United v. FEC and the FEC's disclaimer exemption for digital platforms contribute to the prevalence of anonymous groups' divisive issue campaigns on digital media. The present research offers insight relevant for regulatory policy discussion and discusses the normative implications of the findings for the functioning of democracy. == https://journalism.wisc.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/41/files/2018/04/Kim.FB_.StealthMedia.Final_.PolCom.0411181.pdf ===== comments 9 impact 6549 impactrate 0 likeimpress 9 negative 0 posted 2018-04-17 ratio 7 react 229 reactrate 0 shares 5 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 206 title Fomenting Division - it's not just the Russians topic theory wordrate 0 words 286 ID 606416849702838 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/606416849702838 audclicks 207 audreach 147 bimpress 1681 blikeimpress 5 blikeusers 5 breach 1615 commentsimpress 9 commentsusers 5 engaged 156 impress 1979 likeclickusers 7 likeimpress 9 likeuimpress 88 likeusers 9 likeuusers 27 matchedlinkclicks 72 matchedotherclicks 134 oimpress 298 oreach 194 posted "04/17/2018 10:46:08 PM" postlinkclicks 52 postotherclicks 115 reach 1811 sharesimpress 5 sharesusers 5 type Link budget 20 budgettype Lifetime cadname "Post: ""Fomenting Division - it's not just the Russians""" ccleantitle Fomenting Division - it's not just the Russians cclicksall 312 cclickslink 54 ccpcall 0.06410256 ccpclink 0.37037037 cdelivery not_delivering cend 2018-06-30 cimpressions 1681 clicksunique 53 conversionrank - cost 0.37037037037037 cpm 11.89767995 creach 1592 cstart 2018-04-01 ctrall 18.56038073 ctrlink 3.2123735871505 ecomments 4 ecpclink 0.37037037 ends 2018-04-30 engagedrank - epagelikes 1 ereact 9 eshares 4 frequency 1.0559045226131 indicator actions:link_click qualityrank - results 54 spent 20 ========== Do we need political parties? America's founders considered partisanship to be poison, and devised as many institutional barriers as they could think of, but within a few years the Federal political system had become strictly partisan - and has remained a duopoly almost always ever since. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Jon Ward argues that political parties have an essential role - but they are losing their power to modulate the political process for good (or ill): https://www.yahoo.com/news/power-party-political-reforms-can-bad-democracy-090049295.html His argument could be put this way: most voters have very little knowledge about how the government works or how it is supposed to work. But a great deal of specialized information is required to select good candidates, win elections, and run the government. The institutional role of political parties is to preserve this knowledge and pass it on. It is possible to win an election without really engaging a party structure - new technology and personal wealth allowed Trump to do so - but he didn't expect to win and didn't know what to do next, and he didn't know whom to ask, as has become abundantly apparent. Many party reforms intended to improve democratic outcomes have had the opposite effect. The main conclusion is that party structures need to be strengthened. He doesn't say anything about third parties and independents. Gehl and Porter view the two-party system as an industrial duopoly: https://www.hbs.edu/competitiveness/Documents/why-competition-in-the-politics-industry-is-failing-america.pdf and argue that the two main parties are powerful and act to prevent effective competition, but are inexorably driven to differentiate themselves at extremes rather than find practical solutions in the middle. Yet this view leads to one similar conclusion: reforms intended to improve democratic outcomes often have the opposite effect. The main conclusion though is that the power of the duopoly needs to be reduced to break the deadlock in the system, to enable bipartisan, nonpartisan independent, and third party solution sources. Obviously both points of view can't be completely correct at the same time, though there's a lot to think about in each. ===== impact 848 impactrate 0 likeimpress 1 negative 0 posted 2018-04-17 ratio 18 react 25 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 24 title Do we need political parties? topic theory wordrate 0 words 339 ID 606411963036660 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/606411963036660 audclicks 24 audreach 21 bimpress 445 blikeimpress 5 blikeusers 5 breach 449 engaged 22 impress 530 likeclickusers 4 likeimpress 1 likeuimpress 80 likeusers 1 likeuusers 26 matchedlinkclicks 7 matchedotherclicks 17 oimpress 85 oreach 28 posted "04/17/2018 10:25:08 PM" postlinkclicks 6 postotherclicks 16 reach 474 type Link budget 7 budgettype Lifetime cadname "Post: ""Do we need political parties?""" ccleantitle Do we need political parties? cclicksall 30 cclickslink 6 ccpcall 0.23333333 ccpclink 1.16666667 cdelivery not_delivering cend 2018-06-30 cimpressions 445 clicksunique 6 conversionrank - cost 1.1666666666667 cpm 15.73033708 creach 439 cstart 2018-04-01 ctrall 6.74157303 ctrlink 1.3483146067416 ecpclink 1.16666667 ends 2018-05-08 engagedrank - ereact 1 frequency 1.0136674259681 indicator actions:link_click qualityrank - results 6 spent 7 ========== Liberal or Progressive? Greg Weiner argues that the terms "liberal" and "progressive" have quite different histories and connotations: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/opinion/moynihan-liberals-progressives-lost.html "Liberal" has the same roots at "liberate" and that's the meaning of the classic "liberal arts": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_education They were the disciplines required of a free citizen, to free from ignorance and superstition. In contrast, "progressivism" had ties to eugenics, temperance at the beginning and cultural revolution and obliteration of history more recently. Those Islamic State and al-Qaeda leaders, who liked to blow up cultural landmarks from the pre-Islamic past, could claim to be expediting the inevitable flow of history, just as a previous generation of Communist cultural revolutionaries claimed. Neither the new Islamic man nor the new Socialist man needed to know what mistaken ideologies came before. There have been various Progressive movements in the United States, and the institution of initiative, referendum, and recall in various states was part of the positive legacy at the time, though these reforms have since been perverted by big money. While Woodrow Wilson was counted as a Progressive in many ways, racial relations wasn't one of them; he thought segregation was a fine idea. Soviet era propagandists used "progressive" to refer to leftists in non-Communist countries, not necessarily Communists but not unsympathetic to Communist goals. More recently in the US, "progressive" is often applied to the left and Bernie Sanders wings of the Democratic Party and perhaps the Greens. So where does that leave us and US? American politics move gradually to the left over time; too quickly for reactionaries, too slowly for revolutionaries. Eugene Debs and Norman Thomas were ahead of their times but a lot of their ideas are mainstream now. Bernie Sanders may be in the same tradition. Trumpism is neither conservative nor liberal; it's just populist tending toward fascist and kleptocratic. So it really doesn't shed any light on this discussion. However the excesses of Trumpism have inspired a lot of thinking about a mainstream alternative; here are some examples of different approaches: https://bipartisanpolicy.org/ https://www.uniteamerica.org/ https://www.nolabels.org/ http://joinsam.org/ One approach is a coalition of nonpartisan or bipartisan or independent thinkers to work together to make progress on the things they can agree on, without expecting that they can agree on everything. Another approach is to create a new third party in the center. This is a difficult task and the record of third parties is not encouraging; the Republicans became the majority party in only four years but usually third parties just enjoy a brief spark of popularity until one of the main parties make some concessions to their point of view and incorporates their supporters. More discussion here: http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#registration http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ ===== impact 3542 impactrate 0 likeimpress 3 negative 0 posted 2018-04-15 ratio 15 react 82 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 78 title Liberal or Progressive? topic theory wordrate 0 words 432 ID 605389529805570 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/605389529805570 audclicks 80 audreach 74 bimpress 1204 blikeimpress 2 blikeusers 2 breach 1177 engaged 76 impress 1344 likeclickusers 8 likeimpress 3 likeuimpress 113 likeusers 3 likeuusers 55 matchedlinkclicks 60 matchedotherclicks 18 oimpress 140 oreach 76 posted "04/15/2018 02:32:41 PM" postlinkclicks 55 postotherclicks 18 reach 1240 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link budget 20 budgettype Lifetime cadname "Post: ""Liberal or Progressive?""" ccleantitle Liberal or Progressive? cclicksall 115 cclickslink 58 ccpcall 0.17391304 ccpclink 0.34482759 cdelivery rejected cend 2018-06-30 cimpressions 1204 clicksunique 58 conversionrank - cost 0.3448275862069 cpm 16.61129568 creach 1167 cstart 2018-04-01 ctrall 9.55149502 ctrlink 4.8172757475083 ecpclink 0.34482759 ends 2018-04-30 engagedrank - ereact 1 frequency 1.031705227078 indicator actions:link_click qualityrank - results 58 spent 20 ========== You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns! William Jennings Bryan carried more weight as an orator than as an economist. But what an orator: "There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them. ... You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold." Would have had the same effect if issued as a long series of tweets? Bimetallism doesn't carry much weight as a political issue these days. Perhaps one lesson is "be sure your cause is worthy of your rhetoric." Or maybe it's "find a cause worthy of your rhetoric." If you're curious you can learn more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_of_Gold_speech http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5354/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimetallism ===== comments 1 hide 1 hideall 1 impact 975 impactrate 0 likeimpress 3 negative 2 posted 2018-04-09 ratio 23 react 57 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 50 title You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown topic theory wordrate 0 words 171 ID 602841396727050 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/602841396727050 audclicks 50 audreach 42 bimpress 1303 blikeimpress 18 blikeusers 17 breach 1266 commentsimpress 1 commentsusers 1 engaged 47 hideallclicks 1 hideallclicksusers 1 hideclicks 1 hideclicksusers 1 impress 1483 likeclickusers 3 likeimpress 3 likeuimpress 103 likeusers 3 likeuusers 43 matchedlinkclicks 19 matchedotherclicks 31 negclicks 2 negusers 2 oimpress 180 oreach 116 posted "04/09/2018 04:26:12 PM" postlinkclicks 19 postotherclicks 26 reach 1347 sharesimpress 1 sharesusers 1 type Link budget 20 budgettype Lifetime cadname "Post: ""You shall not press down upon the brow of labor...""" ccleantitle You shall not press down upon the brow of labor cclicksall 107 cclickslink 19 ccpcall 0.18691589 ccpclink 1.05263158 cdelivery rejected cend 2018-06-30 cimpressions 1303 clicksunique 19 conversionrank - cost 1.0526315789474 cpm 15.34919417 creach 1265 cstart 2018-04-01 ctrall 8.21181888 ctrlink 1.4581734458941 ecomments 1 ecpclink 1.05263158 ends 2018-04-13 engagedrank - ereact 3 frequency 1.0300395256917 indicator actions:link_click qualityrank - results 19 spent 20 ========== Middle America Reboots Democracy An interesting take on the low-level effect of Trumpism is in https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/25/opinion/democrats-voter-turnout.html which refers to Putnam and Skocpol: https://democracyjournal.org/arguments/middle-america-reboots-democracy/ Putnam and Skocpol discuss the mechanisms of grass-roots women's new-found political activism, particularly among educated suburban middle-class women. It's not just different ends, it's different means, that started shortly after the 2016 election, even before #NeToo took off, and the existing Democratic Party structure is not always tuned in to the different means, nor to the ideological diversity of the women involved. ===== comments 22 impact 3096 impactrate 0 likeimpress 26 negative 0 posted 2018-04-09 ratio 9 react 373 reactrate 0 shares 5 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 320 title Middle America Reboots Democracy topic theory wordrate 0 words 83 ID 602783370066186 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/602783370066186 audclicks 330 audreach 272 bimpress 3488 blikeimpress 11 blikeusers 9 breach 3211 commentsimpress 22 commentsusers 9 engaged 292 impress 3836 likeclickusers 11 likeimpress 26 likeuimpress 123 likeusers 26 likeuusers 60 matchedlinkclicks 172 matchedotherclicks 148 oimpress 348 oreach 241 posted "04/09/2018 12:15:01 PM" postlinkclicks 160 postotherclicks 120 reach 3434 sharesimpress 5 sharesusers 5 type Link budget 45 budgettype Lifetime cadname "Post: ""Middle America Reboots Democracy""" ccleantitle Middle America Reboots Democracy cclicksall 474 cclickslink 220 ccpcall 0.0953999 ccpclink 0.208631 cdelivery rejected cend 2018-06-30 cimpressions 3489 clicksunique 82+134 conversionrank - cost 0.208631 cpm 12.9104 creach 3263 cstart 2018-04-01 ctrall 13.5679 ctrlink 6.28248 ecomments 4 ecpclink 0.423446 ends 2018-06-03 engagedrank - ereact 20 eshares 5 frequency 1.06926 indicator actions:link_click qualityrank - results 220 spent 45 ========== Middle America Reboots Democracy - Putnam and Skocpol A previous posting here discusses the high-level political effect of Trumpism, particularly after #MeToo. An interesting take on the low-level effect of Trumpism is mentioned here: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/25/opinion/democrats-voter-turnout.html referring to Putnam and Skocpol: https://democracyjournal.org/arguments/middle-america-reboots-democracy/ The article discusses the mechanisms of grass-roots women's new-found political activism, particularly among educated suburban middle-class women. It's not just different ends, it's different means, that started shortly after the 2016 election, even before #NeToo took off, and the existing Democratic Party structure is not always tuned in to the different means, nor to the ideological diversity of the women involved. ===== impact 300 impactrate 0 likeimpress 2 negative 0 posted 2018-04-03 ratio 13 react 30 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 28 title Middle America Reboots Democracy - Putnam and Skocpol topic theory wordrate 0 words 100 ID 600111996999990 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/600111996999990 audclicks 28 audreach 23 bimpress 344 blikeimpress 1 blikeusers 1 breach 343 engaged 24 impress 477 likeclickusers 4 likeimpress 2 likeuimpress 123 likeusers 2 likeuusers 57 matchedlinkclicks 19 matchedotherclicks 9 oimpress 133 oreach 64 posted "04/03/2018 02:09:29 PM" postlinkclicks 17 postotherclicks 8 reach 413 type Link budget 20 budgettype Lifetime cadname "Post: ""Middle America Reboots Democracy - Putnam and Skocpol""" ccleantitle Middle America Reboots Democracy - Putnam and Skocpol cclicksall 30 cclickslink 16 ccpcall 0.22366667 ccpclink 0.419375 cdelivery rejected cend 2018-06-30 cimpressions 344 clicksunique 15 conversionrank - cost 0.419375 cpm 19.50581395 creach 342 cstart 2018-04-01 ctrall 8.72093023 ctrlink 4.6511627906977 ecpclink 0.419375 ends 2018-04-13 engagedrank - ereact 1 frequency 1.0058479532164 indicator actions:link_click qualityrank - results 16 spent 6.71 ========== Conspiracy! Fifty years later, still timely: Richard Hofstadter: The Paranoid Style in American Politics https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/ ===== hide 1 hideall 1 negative 2 posted 2018-01-29 rate 2 ratio 6 react 6 sumclicks 4 title Conspiracy! topic theory words 14 ID 570439926633864 URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/570439926633864 audclicks 4 audreach 3 engaged 3 hideallclicks 1 hideallclicksusers 1 hideclicks 1 hideclicksusers 1 impress 114 likeclickusers 3 likeuimpress 108 likeuusers 36 matchedlinkclicks 1 matchedotherclicks 3 negclicks 2 negusers 2 oimpress 114 oreach 38 posted "01/29/2018 05:59:16 AM" postlinkclicks 1 postotherclicks 2 reach 38