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quando pluit, diluviat “the personality of the honey badger, the conviction of Lex Luthor and the work ethic of the dog from Hee Haw.” BHM born, DMV bred, buttered in NorCal. He/him/hee/haw @ms8.bsky.social tolerates my nonsense somehow ;] 躺平
!["[T]he great 'electronic town meeting'..sounds great, especially to economists, populists and other primates. What we as political scientists know is that high participation levels are associated with high levels of ideology. Do we really want a government that consists entirely of a sort of Ron Dellums-Robert Dornan juxtaposition? Yes please, I want permanent gridlock perpetrated by the kind of yahoos who spend their life dialing up talk shows and flaming each other on tired local computer BBS forums... [P]olitics is rapidly taking on the trappings of spectator sport, with C-SPAN as its ESPN and CNN Inside Politics to keep score. Issues get kicked around, but what matters most is who's ahead... the scorekeeping approach tends to exacerbate posturing and mindless prattling and gives us stupid statements from Bob Dole, who would otherwise be almost reasonable. It forces people to hew to a bad line and encourages rabble like Newt Gingrich. And it turns people off to politics, where anthropomorphic typhoid germs like Ross Perot and Oliver North can pull huge (comparatively) vote totals..."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:abdfjzceo2n4h2gjzpe735gy/bafkreig2boaqb4s34bivlh5ncbb5ns6cgz4dyoayoxylkqerniwyyh2onm)
