This also shows the dangers of such a method—if Rush gets too powerful, it goes from “You naughty boy, Rush!” to “You naughty boy, critic of Rush!”, like what’s happening now with respect to Michael Steele. And too much extremism can result in evaporative cooling.
They don’t necessarily have to be—but then it should be easy to identify the radicals, as they go off to start their own groups.
If there is another group close to the moderates, say another political party, they may go join that one since that would be more straightforward than waiting for the extremists (who also may have more affective attachment to the label) to leave.
This also shows the dangers of such a method—if Rush gets too powerful, it goes from “You naughty boy, Rush!” to “You naughty boy, critic of Rush!”, like what’s happening now with respect to Michael Steele. And too much extremism can result in evaporative cooling.
Evaporative cooling?
Evaporative cooling.
Why would the moderates, rather than the extremists, be the high-energy particles?
Because otherwise the metaphor doesn’t work.
They don’t necessarily have to be—but then it should be easy to identify the radicals, as they go off to start their own groups.
If there is another group close to the moderates, say another political party, they may go join that one since that would be more straightforward than waiting for the extremists (who also may have more affective attachment to the label) to leave.