ok so there is a common story that ww2 was an ideological struggle between Democracy and Communism and Fascism. and the cold War between Democracy and Communism. and then democracy won and in the end democracy p much run out a la fukuyama and the spirit of the 90s
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this feels unsatisfying to me. consider the united States consider also its state at the open of the 20th century as far as i can tell while we have retained the formal organizations of that era in practice the us government has moved into another system entirely
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but the direction of the changes seems especially curious. as far as i can tell the changes are typical of what might be consistent with a movement in the direction of each purportedly defeated competitor ideology
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more or less the united states has moved toward a large, powerful, regulatory, managerial state with a huge welfare system and mass sway over all facets of life, especially compared to its gilded age and pre-Rooseveltian constitution
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the most prominent feature of Communist and Fascist ideologies is a massive, totalizing state most places have adopted this form of government since the fall of Germany and the USSR how can we call this victory
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I am once again compelled to resort to shouting things like "whisky rebellion" repeatedly with zero explanation
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No explanation I needed
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