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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2025-01-06 at 15:05

Winning an election is easier than it looks: all you have to do is convince a bunch of different groups that you will use power to achieve their desires. Bonus points if you can convince groups with mutually exclusive goals that you'll deliver for them - the coalition of "people who disagree about everything" is hard to assemble, but it sure is large!

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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2025-01-06 at 15:05

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/06/how-the-sausage-gets-made/#governing-is-harder

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Written by Steve Popovich on 2025-01-06 at 15:45

@pluralistic "Klown Kar of Krazies" -- I see what you did there; the initialism is very much appropriate for today's Republican Party.

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Written by punIssuer on 2025-01-06 at 16:03

@sspopovich I didn't; thank you!

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