At the large scale, the political history of democracies is totally dominated by popular correlation-causation errors. ...
@Outsideness what's the counterfactual if Democrats had happened to be in power. Maybe R's would have attacked them from the left?
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@anomalyuk We know at least, in the UK, that the welfare state wasn't going to be created by the Tories (at least, not in the 1940s). ... -
@anomalyuk ... Churchill quite rightly denounced it as a fascist abomination. -
@Outsideness ...but by the 50's he was expanding it. When the time comes... -
@Outsideness My thoughts on this question: http://anomalyuk.blogspot.co.uk/2008/03/who-rules.html … -
@Outsideness There are effects of electoral politics, but I think they are more chaotic than predictable
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@anomalyuk Speculation: If Ds had been in power rough consensus would exist today that GD was caused by loose money and bloated government. -
@Outsideness alternative: those who were able to crystallise the opposite narrative would have been at least able to blur that conclusion
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