EricS wrote:
On 10/31/24 5:07 AM, Santafe wrote:
...
The voting block that can cause the calamity is certainly a coalition of
non-identical groups. If we think there are categories of Spontaneous Racists
and Stimulated Racists (to borrow a term from spectroscopy), the part of the
voting bloc that is made up of the spontaneous ones may not be all that large;
maybe 20%? Not as large as the evangelicals (35–40%?, with some overlap).
There presumably are some genuinely out-to-lunch types, and maybe one can
imagine that talking has some place with them, which could be enough to move
the margin of this winner-take-all event we are stuck with. And then the ones
that can think enough to be strategically greedy or hoarding, but not
circumspect enough to have every cared or understood how the society they suck
from actually functions. _Maybe_ talking could have some effect with them.
Love the articulate, dense, but concise essay on this front-of-mind
high-stakes topic for the week (year).
For the hard-core CS types here it would seem we have a Marshalling of Mobs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshalling_(computer_science)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Marshalling_in_heraldry
In an attempt to avoid launching into a Morbid-Fascination, rant/rave,
let me offer a few source domains of suggested interest/relevance:
* Goth/Visigoth 2-4C
* Mongols 13-14C
* Native American Confederated resistances (Tecumseh, Geronimo,
Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse) 18-19C
not to mention dozens or hundreds or great saros of "popular movements"
we might identify with:
* reformation
* french revolution
* american (federation of 13 colonies)
* abolitionism
* suffragism
* civil rights
* equal rights
* anti-apartheid
* solidarnosk
* arab spring
* occupy
* BLM
* #MeToo
* Fridays for Future
If/when Harris wins, it will be based on as unlikely of a coalition
perhaps as the combination of Evangelicals, Angry White Men, Millenial
Incels, Reagan Republicans, etc who shoved Donald Trump's electoral
college support over the unlikely line in 2016.
In a nod to Jochen, I appreciate the gesture of hope and solidarity from
our friends in Europe who may have more riding on our outcome than we
do? I may have influenced a small handful of votes (softened the hard
core center of a few anti-Liberal acquaintances enough they might at
least write-in, leave the top of the ticket blank or not even go to the
polls)... this is where my hope lies, that 1/10 Lefties and Allies
have done the same...
Sarbajit once indicated he wasn't interested in the outcome or struggles
of US Politics Re: Trumpism... perhaps India is in a good position to
ride through this global geopolitical (possible) transition. I *am*
sympathetic that the US might well look like "just another global bully"
not that different than the likes of Putin's Russia and Xi's China.
Power is Corruption? Pieter is another representative (reluctant or
proud?) of the BRICS bloc whose interests in this might not be as
aligned as those of Europe. I do wish we had a (yet) broader (vocal?)
constituency here.
-. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. .
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom
https://bit.ly/virtualfriam
to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/
1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
