And people say the world hasn't gotten betterhttps://twitter.com/AtomicAnalyst/status/1051969666082623488 …
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Back when we were all united in our fight against external threats... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long,_hot_summer_of_1967 …
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When Americans united behind our leaders....https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Ford-escaped-2-assassination-attempts-Both-2481771.php …
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I think Martinez has an approximation of a point here. Having a commonly understood existential threat, at the very least, appears to have made American politics less of a kayfabe shitshow than it is now. The stakes were understood to be real.
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I wish we had relative unity among our elites now like we did then. But I wouldn't be willing to bring back the USSR or similar nightmarish regime just to get that elite unity. Perspective!
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We're not doing comparative statics on retroactive divine interventions in human history here - just evaluating whether having a strictly defined formal international rivalry weeded out the worst kinds of bullshit artists from politics in the US.
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You're cherry picking historical events rather than looking at more representative measures of social cohesion.
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And how are 2500 terrorist bombings in an 18-month period not a broad measure of social cohesion? How is the frequency and severity of riots not a broad measure of social cohesion??
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Ugh. I've got boat-work to do. Yes, you're right Mr. Pangloss, we're in the best of all possible worlds. I can't convey some historical reality through charts. It would be like trying to explain Weimar via sociological data. I give up.
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You're not *that* much older than me, Wise Old Man. ;-) OK, TTYL...
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