"Who will accept losing the next elections? Odds are that neither the Left nor, now, the Right will accept it." The right holds no institutional power, so their rejection would come in the form of petulant weeping.
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Replying to @Alrenous @Outsideness
"and that a substantial portion of the Senate’s Republican majority would be friendly to it." Yes. Generations of loser/outer Party selection at work.
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"That would leave the 2016 electorate’s defense to Trump—who would be forced to fully deploy Presidential powers" And as a result, throw the first punch. Most likely leading to Emperor (Imperator, meaning literally 'commander') Trump, as per
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"What would a fully re-empowered ruling class that had tasted the possibility of dis-empowerment do to preclude anything like that ever happening again?" They can't disestablish democracy, or they will face immediate rebellion.
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If they do anyway and crush the rebellion, the official renunciation of democracy will in fact be a step toward stability and prosperity. If they don't disestablish democracy, they can be voted out again.
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Codevilla is a particular class of scholar, who is capable of accurately and coherently conveying their personal observations but little else. They cannot generalize, nor can they infer future events. They are a critical operative, but basically a lab rat.
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A jargon maintenance technician of the public knowledgebase.
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I'm thinking more of a sensor. You point it at something and it can tell you what it sees. Just don't ask the sensor to understand what it senses. Indeed, ask it to refrain from pretending to such abilities.
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Can't say I agree. They're decoders/re-encoders, not scout probes. Psycho-Pass: “This is about finding the truth behind people’s deaths! If we want to uncover such a thing, naturally we must risk our own lives!” Scholars are about filing the report - if the info comes back.
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Oh, I see what you mean now. I projected my interest in the cost-of-retrieval dimension too much.
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There's certainly a code/decoder layer behind the scouts. I think a good scout includes that layer, though.
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