the party was a hierarchy; you started at the bottom and moved up one step at a time-school board, city council, state assembly-and then if you had demonstrated lockstep team loyalty, the powers at the top would give you the party endorsement and its aid, and you were good to go. Had been that way for centuries. Outsiders did pop up to express various dissatisfactions, and occasionally some of them even overthrew the order of things and got elected, but then they were ostracized forever by the party and could get nothing done. They just wasted their time and whatever little money could be dredged up to support such quixotic tilts."
( Kim Stanley Robinson )
[ New York 2140 ]
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