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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 30

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Fred Jameson

    Another way to phrase this is that the evidence of the last century is that in the absence of large scale military project (WWII, Cold War, GWOT), USA political system falls into gridlock & dysfunction. The system needs war to fuction.https://twitter.com/YahwehDenier/status/1531257056690327553 …

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    Fred Jameson @YahwehDenier
    “World War II and the Cold War showed what can be achieved when a capitalist democracy commits the heresy of national planning.” Bringing the Supply Chain Back Home - Robert Kuttner https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/11/18/bringing-the-supply-chain-back-home/ …
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      1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet May 30

        Given the many veto points in USA political system and outsized power of regional gentry (the local rich of each state), the only way USA political system can work is if it's confronted by an external foe, which mobilizes unity and overcomes vetoes.

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      2. Social Impact at Dutch East India Company‏ @zendaimyo May 30
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        the new deal was working before the war tho

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      3. Ilyana Kuziemko‏ @ikuziemko May 30
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        But spectre of communism within and abroad played that mobilizing role in crisis of 1930s

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      1. Paul  💧 ⬆️‏ @Paul08113166 May 30
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        This makes much more sense to me from a monetary standpoint. You need the US dollar to be reserve currency, protect with proof of violence. POV-> PoW AND POV -> PoS.

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      1. Aaron‏ @Aaronjh1019 May 30
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        Has nothing to do with military acts, it has to do with our government going unchecked and the corrupt not being held accountable as well as the wealthy becoming above the law and influencers in laws and legal precedence. The system isn't dysfunctional it's completely broken.

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      2. Wolfman Jerk‏ @boshin_goshin May 30
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        GWOT era had a functional political system?

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      3. alleged human‏ @Smith_EB May 30
        Replying to @boshin_goshin @HeerJeet

        I think he means it was functional in that it unified Congress to pass things like the Patriot Act and pursue the Afghan & Iraq wars. Things that hugely transformed the US. They were horrible things, but they did get done.

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      2. Fred Jameson‏ @YahwehDenier May 30
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        This isn’t entirely true, given the New Deal

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      3. the wine mom’s burden‏ @Nucular_War May 30
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        perhaps war is a sufficient, but not necessary, unifying force

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      1. Gary Schroeder‏ @gary_schroeder May 30
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        Fits with the old theory that the only thing that could unite the people of earth is an alien invasion.

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