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So you fit right in then.
Bolsheviks, morons, nutbags, fools, sociopaths...
yep, hand and glove
In SANTA ANA, California they are outright
Bolsheviks.
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Civic associations are not elected. The people who get involved are the
loudest. They impose their will on the quietest. In some cities, they also
have advisory boards where citisens get involved but these boards become
more like boosters. Members on these boards get promoted by the public
agency, so the ones who make the most noise or speak up are discouraged. In
fact, these boards constitute co-optation, not representation. And yet de
Tocqueville wrote that these institutions were the very basis of American
society. Who is right? Where are we going? Some societies have strong feudal
traditions of what sociologists call "private ordering". Yet private
ordering is also used to describe organized crime.
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