Anonymous ID: a6a3c4 April 12, 2019, 7:12 a.m. No.6150420   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0471

cocaine mitch is such an ass of the old vanguard. looks like will be bedfellows with romney and chamber of commerce types.

 

i translate his plea to incumbents up for re-election kinda like this:

 

guyz if you like your current standard of living, then keep with the logrolling and point out how many buildings back home are named after you. use that to suggest the size of your usefulness to the constituents. people hate the senate but love their senators. go with that even if you gotta drop the R beside your name to get distance from MAGA.

 

such a fuck.

Anonymous ID: a6a3c4 April 12, 2019, 7:16 a.m. No.6150471   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0486

>>6150420

you know what would get myself for one excited to vote for my incumbent, if that person would run on a platform of pushing out texhnocrats that carry the attitude that they are somehow experts and convey that citizens should leave legislative and regulatory matters to the big boys. It would excite me to see a MAGA-ish platform of: hey we should talk to neighbors more often. learn their names … face to face. join a civic organization or 2. fuck the pork money sent home. that doesnt really impact my daily life at all.

Anonymous ID: a6a3c4 April 12, 2019, 7:18 a.m. No.6150486   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>6150471

and i put all that out not to vent but to set up this work by robert putnam that had some influence on my thinking some time ago. He wrote a book called Bowling Alone. heres the copy pasta… ruminatw on it when you consider that we are the start of repairing the problem he identified.

 

Putnam discusses ways in which Americans have disengaged from political involvement including decreased voter turnout, public meeting attendance, serving on committees, and working with political parties. Putnam also cites Americans' growing distrust in their government. Putnam accepts the possibility that this lack of trust could be attributed to "the long litany of political tragedies and scandals since the 1960s",[1] but believes that this explanation is limited when viewing it alongside other "trends in civic engagement of a wider sort".[1]

Putnam notes the aggregate loss in membership and number of volunteers in many existing civic organizations such as religious groups (Knights of Columbus, B'nai Brith, etc.), labor unions, parent–teacher associations, Federation of Women's Clubs, League of Women Voters, military veterans' organizations, volunteers with Boy Scouts and the Red Cross, and fraternal organizations (Lions Clubs, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, United States Junior Chamber, Freemasonry, Rotary, Kiwanis, etc.).[1] To illustrate why the decline in Americans' membership in social organizations is problematic to democracy, Putnam uses bowling as an example. Although the number of people who bowl has increased in the last 20 years, the number of people who bowl in leagues has decreased. If people bowl alone, they do not participate in social interaction and civic discussions that might occur in a league environment.[1]