Posted on 10/03/2013 8:43:26 AM PDT by rktman
Two factors best explain the U.S. government shutdown. The first involves information, or what people think they know. The second involves incentives, or what motivates our elected representatives.
From decades of empirical research, we know that when like-minded people speak with one another, they tend to become more extreme, more confident and more unified — the phenomenon known as group polarization.
One reason involves the spread of information within echo chambers. If you're in a group whose members think the Affordable Care Act is horrible, you'll hear many arguments to that effect and very few the other way.
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Obamacare was passed in the Dem echo chamber. They even made their own unconstitutional rules to do it.
Sunstein can go p*ss up a rope.
Cass Sunstein complaining about an echo chamber in DC? She’s honestly too stupid to realize how very funny that is.
Thankfully it got signed before anyone could read it to find out what was in it. HUH? That statement alone should have placed it in the round file and the fact the dems all bought it proves just how stupid they really are.
It's a shame that they thought they had to prove it......
If she wants to see a true echo chamber, she should visit liberal Facebook pages or chat sites. Non-stop repetition of talking points and no tolerance of varying viewpoints.
I so very glad that my meager mind was enlightened by the vast reservoir of knowledge demonstrated by the obviously superior intellect of the writer.
Hey, idiotess, let me know when you’d like a live debate.
Prepare to eat your own Obamstuff.
/sarc
Would that be the same as having an objective news reader named Al Sharpton on MSNBC?
From a raging far-left lunatic Communist, what do you expect? Hey Sunstein, ESAD!
Cass is PO, ya’ think? CRUZ ROCKED THEIR WORLD!
Two can play this Howard-Pivens game, and conservatives are awake now, willing to do just that.
Exposing un-American activities is the job of the American people, regardless whether Coburn tries to demoralize us and our guys.
RINO’s are trying to kill our voice and stop the calls and the chatter. Amazing what a little Cruz style leadership can accomplish, isn’t it?
Obama is under 44 for the first time in days and days, on RCP polling average.
In what sense is the money in our pockets and bank accounts fully ‘ours’? Did we earn it by our own autonomous efforts? Could we have inherited it without the assistance of probate courts? Do we save it without the support of bank regulators? Could we spend it if there were no public officials to coordinate the efforts and pool the resources of the community in which we live? Without taxes, there would be no liberty. Without taxes there would be no property. Without taxes, few of us would have any assets worth defending. [It is] a dim fiction that some people enjoy and exercise their rights without placing any burden whatsoever on the public… There is no liberty without dependency.[27]
- Cass Sunstein
Rights to private property, freedom of speech, immunity from police abuse, contractual liberty and free exercise of religion – just as much as rights to Social Security, Medicare and food stamps – are taxpayer-funded and government-managed social services designed to improve collective and individual well-being.
- Cass Sunstein
Cass Sunstien needs to do a dance at the end of a short rope.
“A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government,”
- Cass Sunstein, Censor Wannabe
bump
The House passes spending and the Senate rejects it.
That is the cause of the “shutdown”
blaming freedom of political speech is Orwellian
There is no liberty without dependency
Sounds like the sign over the gate of a concentration camp
Sunstein is an unrecognized threat by most people.
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