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    Who are the NERD fund donors Mr Snyder?

    Raise the curtain.

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    Disagree on "run for office" (5.00 / 1) (#10)
    by Jack McHughs Blog on Wed Jun 03, 2009 at 12:33:10 AM EST
    A disagreement here: Don't run for office, but do help defeat a politician. From "Tea Party activists have ATTITUDE" in the Mackinac Center's "Tea Party Activist's Toolbox":

    5. Tea Party activists know they don't have to get elected to change the world.

    They understand that electing a handful of virtuous lawmakers won't solve the problem either, because what needs to change are the incentives operating on the entire political establishment. Here's how Milton Friedman described it:

    "I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or if they try, they will shortly be out of office."

    More often than not the most important effect of an election is who gets defeated, not who gets elected. When a politician loses for "doing the wrong thing" the incentives change for all of them.


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