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<p class="MsoNormal">My model is that people lean left and right as a developmental aspect of personality, and the parties mimic but also manipulate those patterns. People really must be gamed and manipulated by politicians because even the best-intentioned
people are often ignorant of the complexity of the population and the practicalities of governance. Worse, many people are blamers who have nothing to add beyond What’s In It For Me.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Steve Smith<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, October 10, 2020 9:55 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> friam@redfish.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] labels<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Not trying to ding you personally for this, but this kind of blind deference to authority/party/tribe/loyalty is one of the mechanisms I'm trying to tease a part with Marcus' reference to the Left/Right *dominant* component as an inevitability? And I *think*
EricC's questioning of that assumption?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>How *do* our political parties "precess" in higher dimensional space such that the subdominant components can "flip" entirely... how did the party of Lincoln Republicans who rejected secession and abolished Slavery and their opposition which had a strong
component of what became formally the Dixiecrats, effectively flip positions? The party that accused (accuses?) their opposition of being "tax and spenders" has become "print money and spenders". How do deficit Hawks become Deficit Doves or Owls, and is
there an instantaneous "tunneling" between these somewhat oppositional positions?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><a href="https://citizenvox.org/2012/02/22/hawks-doves-and-owls-budget-policy-goes-to-the-zoo/">https://citizenvox.org/2012/02/22/hawks-doves-and-owls-budget-policy-goes-to-the-zoo/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thaniks, EricS for reading and commenting on the Amy Interview I am such a benighted, naïve, stupid, optimist. I can imagine that if she were an Obama nominee, I would be saying, “We have a good one here!”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Friam <a href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com">
<friam-bounces@redfish.com></a> <b>On Behalf Of </b>David Eric Smith<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, October 10, 2020 3:47 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com">
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] labels<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yes, and not only Ugh.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The two places this bothers me as a category error are:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1. It conflates writing the rules of the game and being a player in the game. Shubik used to harp on this: that the government’s role as the declarer of monetary policy, and as the participant in fiscal policy, were roles at different
levels, game designer versus large atomic player. The category isn’t quite as clean here, in that a rule targeting balanced affiliation isn’t exactly the same as playing for one side. It is a bit more like certain monkey societies, in which the problem-solver
steps in on the side of whoever is being attacked to lessen the asymmetry.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">But it still feels like it has a related problem, of defining an outer law (constitution or statute for structure of the court) in terms of a non-legal convention (the particular parties and how they are non-formally categorized and weighted
in the society at this time), and that feels completely unstable against drift. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A more mechanism-design-y thing would be to revisit whichever Federalist Paper it was that talked about the destabilizing role of parties, never imagining the technologies for coordination that would be available to them 230 years later,
and ask what the mechanism update is to the constitution in a world where instabilities toward consolidation are so extreme. Kind of the same spirit as revisiting capitalist property rights laws when a warehouser and distributor can come to own the whole
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<p class="MsoNormal">2. In the Coney Barrett talk that Nick circulated, she made an important point that should be true, even if we could argue that it is a smokescreen that isn’t true in reality. She says “liberal/conservative” in regard to the interpretation
of constitutional law are different categories from “liberal/conservative” as political affiliations. She probably even believes it, though I expect that her SCOTUS decisions will magically align with the political axes 100% of the time, and one must ask
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<p class="MsoNormal">Of course, the question is whether it is all disingenuous. Thomas Edsall had a decent article in NYT a few days ago on originalism/living-text definitions, that was right on the thread we were on. It is interesting that the opponents
of each side make _exactly_ the same accusation toward it: that the side they are criticizing has no real method and is a program for rationalizing whatever outcome the judge wanted politically. To the extent that that is true in substance, if obfuscated
in appearance, then Coney Barrett’s claim that they are different categories is a falsehood. One wonders then at what level of argument one could force her to acknowledge that error.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Oct 9, 2020, at 11:18 PM, Eric Charles <<a href="mailto:eric.phillip.charles@gmail.com">eric.phillip.charles@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">--- reconfigure (expand) it from 9 to 15 but<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Note that one thing both parties agree on is that we should conceive politics as utterly and completely a choice between the two of them. God forbid that we conceive of judges using any other dimensions. In fact, let's enshrine it in law
that we must forever focus on exactly whether we have a "balance" of "left" and "right". Ugh!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 4:48 PM Steve Smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com">sasmyth@swcp.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ha! I refer to the last bit as "ok fine, TWIST my drinking arm!" when<br>
someone offers to buy me one... the only one to twists my drinking arm<br>
this last six months has been Mary... and Maybe Stephen and his circle<br>
on "ZoomGrappaNight".<br>
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I don't like the language around "packing the court". I don't think<br>
"reconfiguring the court" is the same as "packing the court". Clearly,<br>
the (not so) loyal opposition to the Dems *would* pack the court... add<br>
6 more justices and make sure they are ALL conservative leaners. Pete<br>
Buttegeig was the first to speak of this in my earshot, and HIS version<br>
sounded pretty reasonable... reconfigure (expand) it from 9 to 15 but<br>
*balance* the Left/Right ideology (I think he proposed 5/5) and then<br>
leave it to the Justices themselves to fill the remaining 5 (through<br>
some arcane process?). What the Republicans have been building up to<br>
for decades is "packing the courts". <br>
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Checks and balances are tricky, as is depending on social norms and<br>
standards, but I think it might be "as good as it gets", at least for<br>
the time being.<br>
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On 10/8/20 1:36 PM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote:<br>
> Ha! That was the essence of one of the 538 panel member's phrasing suggestion for Kamala Harris in response to Pence's question about packing SCOTUS. The elaborated version was: "Because confirming Barrett, NOW, is such a horribly wrong thing to do, we have
no choice BUT to pack the court." ... I.e. now look what you made me do. That was my dad's favorite phrase to justify whatever abuse he chose to mete out that day. He once ran over my bicycle with his truck. I *made* him run over my bike because I left it
laying in the driveway. It's a running joke with my fellow drinkers who *regularly* FORCE me to drink more than I should. There is no free will. I live to serve.<br>
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> On 10/8/20 11:28 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:<br>
>> Look what you made me do,<br>
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