
16: Tyler Cowen - The Revolution Will Not Be Marginalized
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The Politics of Emotional Manipulation
i don't see america becoming like switzerland any time soon, but clearly it's not impossible. There's a disconnection between working on these campaigns and using people's passions to sort of take over the decision making. And then there's this inability to understand, how did we all become so uncivil? Well, i think one of the things that really strikes me about that is that the lee atwaters and the frank lunes, who am put a sort of deliberate spin on this kind of mean spirited emotional manipulation, were surprised that it didn't behave as rugby does.
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