Eli Hinze’s Reviews > Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community > Status Update

He makes a good point on how people can donate to make their political statement of preference without actually being inconvenienced by the requirements of participation. I’m certainly guilty of this.
So now, special interests have to form a paid bureaucracy to get stuff done or risk withering away.

I appreciate that he’s defining his terms, claim, and references a wide variety of sources