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On Changing Behavior

Remember, answering a poll is a way of asserting identity. Beliefs tend to be reverse engineered, as it were: People tend to construct an identity around what they (and their tribe) do. That suggests that they will only construct a different identity when they start doing different things. So imagine the same guy who rejected [...]

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The No Labels movement: Aiming for the political middle

This WSJ articlelooks at the No Labels movement. I’m thinking No Labels. Tea Party. The Tea Party is practically an official Republican faction, and could make up its own third party if it were so brave and less parasitic. No Labels? Can we get some honest people in the government? Or are we forever doomed [...]

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