Charles Herold / is on Nostr

Best-selling author in my head, unpublished author in the real world.

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Last Notes

2024-06-24 20:15:13

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The left needs to vote for Dems and then find better ways to *pressure* Dems when they're in power. I feel AOC and Sanders are people who understand how to use the power of the possible, but too many progressives are overly focussed on the power of the highly improbably.

2024-06-24 20:07:48

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I think the ultimate issue is that the incentive system for politicians is hopelessly broken. So when people propose not voting, or voting third party, as a way to change the incentives, the goal is correct. The problem is that you can't structurally change a broken incentive system by making yourself irrelevant to that broken system.

2024-06-24 19:59:26

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Hate to break it to you, but in the U.S. not listening to voters *is* the norm for both parties (though more so for the Republicans, whose policies are genuinely unpopular).

2024-06-24 19:13:52

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Most people who don't vote are apathetic or apolitical. Green Party voters, on the other hand, clearly think voting has value and they are paying enough attention to have opinions about how they'd like the country to be governed, unlike many non-voters. So, if there were no Green Party, most of them would still vote. And most of them would, if they only had a binary choice, vote Dem.

2024-06-19 23:13:27

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2024-05-30 02:21:13

Justice Alito can apparently make decisions for every single woman in the country except his wife.