Comment by aebtebeten
5 days ago
> they don't matter as much these days
True, but you were talking about voting Trump/Harris, which pretty much implies the wide electorate, no matter who the real selectorate may be.
(speaking of selection, I completely forgot to include the judiciary in previous models. Would the whole Civil Rights thing have even happened if it hadn't been for the Warren Court?)
[Not that Warren was an angel, but despite his bigotry in other ways —or maybe because of it?— he was able to win state office by just winning both party's primaries, which I hadn't even known was a thing]
In the old days the J was a force for solidarity?
Now SV (purports to fill that role, as a champion of the "technocratic faction")
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Court#Decisions
There's a wonderful line in one of the Retief stories where The Corps Diplomatique Terrestrien attempts to introduce "one sentient one vote" on some planet out in the galactic boondocks, and the natives instantly grasp its corollary: one less sentient, one less vote...
I'd believe the low of SV to be such a force; the high appear to be heading for https://www.angryflower.com/348.html , and I've been away for over half a lifetime, so I don't know what the mid may be doing. Blowing in the wind, probably?
https://youtu.be/KDQSuXKT8MA
Liu Cixin ref (山杉惠子) was for https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/features/kaleidoscope/feature_...
https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E7%A0%B4%E5%A3%81%E4%BA%BA/518...