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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Thursday, March 31, 2022

Murc's Law

 Paul Campos and Andrew Gelman take on the philosophy behind Murc's Law. Basically, why do people ignore the other side or give them not agency. This is a variation of people saying that "NATO expansion" led to the war in Ukraine. No. Putin's decisions led to the invasion of Ukraine. Full stop. And the GOP is not actually "good at politics" there are just a bunch of crazy people in this country.

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