December 2011
49 posts
“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.”
—Isadora Duncan (via her0inchic)
“Bigotry and hatred are not the most urgent problem. The most urgent, the most disgraceful, the most shameful and the most tragic problem is silence.”
—
Joachim Prinz, Hitler-era rabbi, quoted by
Satpal Singh: Shatter The Silence: An Undeclared War On Women
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About a decade ago, academics studying the effect of income inequality on politics noticed a striking fact: The growth of income inequality has tracked very closely with measures of political polarization, which has been gauged using the average difference between the liberal/conservative scores for Republican and Democratic members of the House. The scores come from a database widely used by academics.
“The proximity of these trends is uncanny,” researchers Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal wrote in a a 2003 paper. “Remarkably, the trends of economic inequality and elite political polarization have moved almost in tandem for the past half-century.”
” —Gee, you think?
Growing wealth widens distance between lawmakers and constituents - The Washington Post 5 December 2011
