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    1. No. 402‏ @AbsurdistRoader Jun 5
      Replying to @ad_captandum2

      "religiously conservative middle-class" in America, we call those people Republicans. I don't think American politics is secular at all, especially when considered to Canada, the UK, etc. etc. In fact, very similar to Turkey/India with religious middle class + secular elite.

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    2. ad_captandum2‏ @ad_captandum2 Jun 5
      Replying to @AbsurdistRoader

      It's probably somewhere in between UK/Canada and India/Israel/Turkey. My view is that religion is pretty much the only effective organizing principle for the lower middle class

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    3. No. 402‏ @AbsurdistRoader Jun 5
      Replying to @ad_captandum2

      I don't think you even need a common religion or culture. What about the very diverse Ford Nation in multicultural Canada, which is popular among non-whites? A Rob Ford-style coalition would win a supermajority in the relatively downscale America.

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    4. ad_captandum2‏ @ad_captandum2 Jun 5
      Replying to @AbsurdistRoader

      I mean you could be right but I don't think stuff like "war on the car" scales very much beyond local politics

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    5. No. 402‏ @AbsurdistRoader Jun 5
      Replying to @ad_captandum2

      I actually think urban-suburban-rural tensions will rise as urban areas gentrify with rich white liberals who reap almost all economic gains under global capitalism. "FUCK SAN FRANCISCO" actually seems like a winning platform for 2040 California Republicans.

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    6. No. 402‏ @AbsurdistRoader Jun 5
      Replying to @AbsurdistRoader @ad_captandum2

      And nationwide, it easily coalesces into a general anti-elite animus towards whatever local urban area reaps most economic growth. So car culture actually seems like a major political flashpoint for the future.

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    7. No. 402‏ @AbsurdistRoader Jun 6

      I already have none of those things. Duterte actually delivered most of those things in Davao (juries out on Bolsonaro since he's not in charge). I don't think it's either/or. "My side" has to win in order to have those things.

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    8. No. 402‏ @AbsurdistRoader Jun 6
      Replying to @AbsurdistRoader @tcjfs @ad_captandum2

      That being said, Duterte and Bolsonaro are on different sides. Duterte is a secular, pro-LGBT, center-left socialist. Bolsonaro is a hard-right homophobic reactionary quasi-libertarian conservative. I don't think "my side" needs to win. I just think (neo)liberalism has to lose.

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      ad_captandum2‏ @ad_captandum2 Jun 6
      Replying to @tcjfs @AbsurdistRoader

      It's difficult to distinguish between the society-destroying effects of neoliberalism/capitalism and social liberalism/leftism. I guess China will be instructive to watch in this respect.

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        2. ad_captandum2‏ @ad_captandum2 Jun 6
          Replying to @ad_captandum2 @AbsurdistRoader

          I'm not completely against the idea that modern social collapse and atomization is a side effect of capitalism but we really have no way of knowing that

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        4. No. 402‏ @AbsurdistRoader Jun 6

          To be quite fair, that sounds like an East Asian developmental state (Japan, Korea), which seem somewhat better on the atomization point, but not perfect. But maybe non-bureaucratic Tory socialism? I'm a big fan of using Thaler-Sunstein "nudge" to promote pro-social outcomes.

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        6. No. 402‏ @AbsurdistRoader Jun 6
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          I actually have no idea, I should have a friend ask him. To be quite fair, child support less important in Japan, where the cost of raising a child is much much lower than the US. I have Japanese friends who pay like $150 a month for childcare holy shit

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        8. No. 402‏ @AbsurdistRoader Jun 6
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          It's not that bad. Japan =fertility rate of 1.5 now, which is around where white Americans are at. Much higher rate than say, the 1.0 of Asian-Americans or white Californians. The 1.1 fertility rate in Tokyo also much better than the 0.2 fertility rate of white San Franciscans

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        9. No. 402‏ @AbsurdistRoader Jun 6
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          Low Japanese birthrates, I think largely attributable to high levels of urbanization (I mean, Tokyo alone has about 1/4th of the country). If San Francisco were 1/4th of America, we'd have the worst birth rate on Earth.

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