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your real life mamamier dream. If you're someone who needs to convince your your boss to give you a raise. You go talk to your boss and what is that conversation like? You think

ahead of time, how do I get the boss to understand my position

how do I get them to see it my way what do I have to do to see things his way or her way and

all of a sudden you're like oh yeah I'm in a moment of strategy here. In politics, in real politics, that's what it's like too, because you've got to build that coalition. In hobbyism, you're practicing this crazy alternative skill set. And so that's why you see sometimes when like a bunch of

people descend on a school board meeting or show up on a campus protest and just say

insane things that are super provocative because they've learned the totally wrong

skill set for this. And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. We're growing the podcast and trying a bunch of new things. One of them is going to be a monthly more or less mailback episode in which I try to answer some of your questions.

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all the fun new things that we're trying to do by going to Yashamunk.com and becoming

paying subscribing. My guest today is Eton Hirsch.

Eton is a professor of politics at Tufts University and the author among others of politics is for power.

We had a conversation about why Aetan worries about what he calls political hobbyism, why he thinks that too many people approach politics a little bit like sports fandom rather than with an actual attempt strategically to influence people and create real change.

We also talked about a host of other issues from why it is that American political parties

worry far too much about electoral rules like voter ID thinking falsely that it will give

them a partisan advantage to change the rule in

one direction or the other and Aetan's attempts on campus to create more genuine

engagement between people of different political persuasions and

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