Webcrumbs from September 21, 2024. See all of 2024.
The post offers a framing device, a theory, to make sense of American two-party democratic politics in general, and the one or two conceptual steps necessary to do beyond just voting.
…it is more accurate to divide most politicians into two broad categories: Enemies, and Cowards. The enemies are those politicians who are legitimately opposed to your policy goals. The cowards are those politicians who may agree with your policy goals, but will sell you out if they must in order to protect their own interests.
"I will test this theory.