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You overestimate how powerful American political parties are. The leadership ride waves. They don't make them.
by humanrebar 6y ago
You overestimate how powerful American political parties are. The leadership ride waves. They don't make them.
- ashtonkem 6y agoThat’s a fairly new phenomenon; parties used to be extremely powerful.
- RNCTX 6y agoThe internet has killed that notion, I think. It's not possible to maintain a farce anymore like they could in the days when the only media that needed influencing was TV, radio, and newspapers. Since the internet is a great equalizer in terms of reaching a large audience for relatively little money, political parties in the US have gotten more much factional internally in my lifetime.