All systems are frauds if sufficiently gamed. All norms and laws depends on agreement that norms and laws matter.
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I guess I mean that any system can be turned into a fraud, even if it didn’t start out completely fraudulent.
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People keep saying how resilient American institutions are, when they all seem ready to crumble to me. If it's an end, it's a shabby one, but I can't say undeserved.
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ah, but they haven't crumbled Yet. if they were not resilient, they would have crumbled already. what is the future?
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GOP = fraud
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Silver lining.
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They have weaponized the Habermasian Legitimation Crisis
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That's an interesting framing. You should write it up somewhere!
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Couldn't another way of looking at this be that radicals have been right for 150 years but it took the GOP punching the country in the mouth once a day for 60 years for everyone else to say "hey, wait a minute..."
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I look at it as GOP=radicals.

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