“The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways.” PeopleWayEvilCausesGroupsFiguresAuthorityPressureBehavePeersConformShockingAuthority FiguresPeer Group Book:The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted Source: The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted
“A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this obstruction and disruption. Should Republicans succeed in obstructing the Senate from doing its job, it would further lower Congress’s generic favorability rating among the American people. By sabotaging the reputation of an institution of government, the party that is programmatically against government would come out the relative winner.” PeopleShouldYearsGovernmentJobsPartyCoupleRepublicanSucceedDirectorsYears AgoMethodInstitutionsCongressReputationWinnerRelativeSenateStaffCommitteesRatingDisruptionGenericObstruction Author:Mike Lofgren
