Good post, but do you really want to use the specific term political machine for this? “Bloc” or “institution” seem more like what you’re talking about here, unless I’m misunderstanding.
Huh, I never knew that term had any such narrowly construed meaning. Good to know! Given that, I agree that this is a bad name for the thing Ray is talking about.
Ah, alas. Well I just replaced most of the instances with “bloc” but I’m not sure if the connotations of that are quite right either.
I thought “political machine” was a category that included the corrupt bad thing in the wiki article but also included other things, and, man now I’m not sure there’s even a good word for exactly what I want.
Good post, but do you really want to use the specific term political machine for this? “Bloc” or “institution” seem more like what you’re talking about here, unless I’m misunderstanding.
Huh, I never knew that term had any such narrowly construed meaning. Good to know! Given that, I agree that this is a bad name for the thing Ray is talking about.
Ah, alas. Well I just replaced most of the instances with “bloc” but I’m not sure if the connotations of that are quite right either.
I thought “political machine” was a category that included the corrupt bad thing in the wiki article but also included other things, and, man now I’m not sure there’s even a good word for exactly what I want.