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Comment author: gwern 02 June 2014 07:26:07PM 0 points [-]

and over time (e.g. a couple of decades) you can get a serious divergence.

So: politics is not about policy. But we already knew that...

Comment author: Lumifer 02 June 2014 07:34:51PM * 3 points [-]

Politics is complicated and multifaceted and diverse. It is about identity, and about policy, and about power, and about money, etc. etc.