[E. Pluribus Unum]

So your political purity/agnosticism allows you to use Wikipedia but not Google?

Interesting.

[familyop]

Follow the citations wherever written while checking research methodologies and physical phenomena. Or follow the herd.

Bandwagon effect (also see “bandwagon approach” elsewhere)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwagon_effect

[familyop]

This is also related to both the creation and destruction of the current and mostly unproductive middle class. Its influence is very noticeable in political speech today (e.g., celebrity politics).

How Dramatically Did Women's Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government?

JOHN R. LOTT Jr.
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) (download links for whole document at bottom of page)

September 1998

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 60
Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 107, Number 6, Part 1, pp. 1163-1198, December 1999

Abstract:

This paper examines the growth of government during this century as a result of giving women the right to vote. Using cross-sectional time-series data for 1870 to 1940, we examine state government expenditures and revenue as well as voting by U.S. House and Senate state delegations and the passage of a wide range of different state laws. Suffrage coincided with immediate increases in state government expenditures and revenue and more liberal voting patterns for federal representatives, and these effects continued growing over time as more women took advantage of the franchise. Contrary to many recent suggestions, the gender gap is not something that has arisen since the 1970s, and it helps explain why American government started growing when it did.

[familyop]

One of the best ways to stop feeding the commies and fascists in politics and to survive the “destruction of the middle class,” is to become more technically inclined.

The Multimachine
http://opensourcemachine.org/

...or at least bake some cookies or iron some shirts.