Re: [FRIAM] What is the response when bad faith is pervasive and coordinated?

I'm not sure this is relaxant Dave but...When I was a senior at Berkeley I took an upper division course for non-majors in political science (unusual). Among the many required readings was a short book by Eric Hoffer called The True Believer. It presents ideas which may explain schismogenesis. T

Re: [FRIAM] What is the response when bad faith is pervasive and coordinated?

I have been thinking a lot about the *"public movement to disintegrate society."* It feels like we are in the throes of a country-wide schismogenesis - the process of defining ourselves as what our neighbors are not. We expect differences in culture in different environments/contexts, but dramat

Re: [FRIAM] What is the response when bad faith is pervasive and coordinated?

There's an ambiguity in "institutional". Our elections (and suits and rulings) are handled like a tree of locales, allowing both challenges and rulings many articulation points up and down the heterarchy at which to act. Immigration is more unified, more homogenous. As I understand it, federal

[FRIAM] What is the response when bad faith is pervasive and coordinated?

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/28/us/politics/election-activists-voter-challenges.html To moan about this may have some small role early, to try to raise awareness (to compensate for the absence of a News