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Center-left's struggle with innovation while right-wing embraces risk-taking and new technologies in smartphone era politics
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Why do you think that is? I think that does get to the class issue that you were talking about.
The center-left got very comfortable being the kind of meritocratic, technocratic elite that always had the right answer, you know, the kind of smarty-pants answer that everybody in there would congratulate them on.
And the
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Technology's role in transforming media from hierarchical broadcast systems to distributed networks, empowering individuals and extremism
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And technology may be the single most important. It's the kind of the one that begins it all.
So if you think, I'm glad you brought up the authoritarians of the 20s and 30s, because they really did play off the invention of radio. And what they used radio for was as a kind of one-to-many broadcast system that was able to create a kind of
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Shift from economic to cultural voting patterns and growing wealth inequality in American politics
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But there is another story, which is that over the last 30 or 40 years, you are seeing a consistent shift of people moving away from voting purely their economic interests and voting more their cultural, gender, racial identity.
So if you go back 40 or 50 years, you could predict pretty tightly how somebody would vote based on whether they made more
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