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		t-3 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Harvard's response to federal government letter de... The voters are not the party and the party is not the party leadership. The actual policies that end up being supported have little-to-nothing to do with the stuff that gets talked about while campaigning, and this only gets more true the further away from the actual voter the position is.

Aeolun 9 months ago [–]

Yeah. You can implement any policy you want if you can always blame the other party for it (and have your voters eat it up).

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