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Re:Why Markets Boomed in a Year of Human Misery by jlokier on Saturday January 02, 2021 @02:39PM (#25615719)
And yet on some of the big headline issues, those tail-end votes are split almost perfectly 50:50 along party lines.

Which leads people to think, correctly, that independent-minded critical thinking is not determining those votes.

Re:Why Markets Boomed in a Year of Human Misery by jfengel on Sunday January 03, 2021 @11:39AM (#25622801)
It's not the vote, which is binary, but what they're voting on. It takes an enormous amount of effort to shape the language. The details matter.