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   Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 08:29:59 JST Nathan Schneider

   This idea keeps sticking with me—that we have just seen a transformation in US national politics, from "campaign finance" to "campaign financialization," from funding campaigns to campaigns as vehicles for explicit investment and speculation. https://nathanschneider.info/2024/11/the-age-of-campaign-financialization-is-here/

   Does this seem right?

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     J. Nathan Matias 🦣 (natematias@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 08:44:04 JST J. Nathan Matias 🦣

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     @ntnsndr I think so. There’s a precursor to this in the water, railroad, and mining politics of California, which I think is partly where tech got these ideas. I used to think myself a bit arcane for reading so much 18th century and early 19th century progressive history but this country seems more and more headed toward contemporary versions of problems a previous generation thought they solved

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     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 13:52:14 JST Nathan Schneider

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     @natematias Totally. Basically everything I know about political strategy comes from 19th century cooperativists.

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     Dana Burch🗽theres more to love (dana@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Dec-2024 14:26:26 JST Dana Burch🗽theres more to love

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     @ntnsndr politics as an asset class is insightful re their interest and approach

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     Jzero (guerillaontologist@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 23:26:04 JST Jzero

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     @ntnsndr
     See here:
     Golden rule : the investment theory of party competition and the logic of money-driven political systems by Thomas Ferguson

     https://archive.org/details/goldenruleinvest00ferg/